All Things Being Equal

It's auspicious that Sonic Boom'the solo project and nom-deproducer of Peter Kember (Spectrum, Spacemen 3)'returns in2020 with its first new LP in three decades. Kember's drawn tothe year's numerological potency, and this intentionality shinesinto every corner of All Things Being Equal. It's a meditative,mathematical record concerned with the interconnectednessof memory, space, consumerism, consciousness'everything.Through regenerative stories told backwards and forwards,Kember explores dichotomies zen and fearsome, reverential ofhis analog toolkit and protective of the plants and trees that support our lives.Sonic Boom's second album and first for Carpark began in2015 as electronic jams. The original sketches of electronicpatterns, sequenced out of modular synths, were so appealing that Stereolab's Tim Gane encouraged Kember to releasethem instrumentally. 'I nearly did,' confesses Kember, 'but thevibe in them was so strong that I couldn't resist trying to ice thecake.' Three years later, a move to Portugal saw him dusting offthe backing tracks, adding vocals inspired by Sam Cooke, TheSandpipers, and the Everly Brothers (which he admits 'don'tgo far from the turntable pile'), as well as speculative, ominousspoken word segments. His new home Sintra's parks and gardens provided a different visual context for Kember's thoughtfulobservations, and he thematically incorporated sunshine andnature as well as global protests into the ten resulting tracks.'Music made in sterility sound

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Format: CD
Artist: Sonic Boom
Release Date: 12 June 2020
Genre: Alternative
Label: Redeye/Carpark Records
Distributor: MGM Music