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Now Wait For Last Year

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Audiopile Review: If you’re a fan of obscure post-punk or legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick, you’ll know there’s always more to discover. The DIY spirit of post-punk led to an explosion of scrappy bands and bedroom recording projects. Dick, meanwhile, wrote a lot of novels and short stories, and he wrote them as quickly as he could. Obscure post-punk and the best PKD works share a ragged, homebrewed technique and a view of the future more focused on personal intimacy than space opera dramatics. All of which is beautifully summed up by ‘Now Wait for Last Year’, a concept album from 1987 by Nocturnal Emissions co-founder Caroline K, which is named after on one of Dick’s most underrated novels. It starts with the sidelong ‘Happening World’, which mixes grainy soundscapes, highly processed vocals, and hypnotically modulated drones. Side B features shorter pieces with more rhythm and significantly more melody on the synths. But the mood of starkly industrial psychedelia remains. The overall effect is halfway between a Throbbing Gristle live bootleg and a Tangerine Dream movie soundtrack. The perfect accompaniment to PKD’s tale of psychedelically induced time travel, basically.

 

Mannequin Records is proud to present the official reissue of Caroline K’s outstanding 1987 album, “Now Wait For Last Year.”

This haunting, wistful work of post-industrial synthesizer music sees the late Nocturnal Emissions co-founder only solo record. The music on “Now Wait For Last Year” seems to exist firmly outside of it.

Tags like industrial, minimal synth or proto-techno can’t really do justice to the richly cinematic sound-world that Caroline K describes: from the sustained ambient tension of sidelong opener “The Happening World” to the future-primitive rhythms and stately piano flourishes “Animal Lattice”, and the melancholic, deep-frozen synth sequences of “Cheart”.”

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