Grave Era, by Poppy H

Grave Era

by Poppy H

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Limited Edition Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Pro-dubbed transparent smokey-brown cassette with pro-printed inlay and digital UV on-body image shell print, in a clear library case

Limited to 40 copies world-wide

Catalogue No: CN289

Includes unlimited streaming of Grave Era via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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poppyh.bandcamp.com/album/grave-era

INTERVIEW WITH SUN 13:
sun-13.com/2024/02/08/poppy-h-interview-im-very-much-all-or-nothing/

"Woozy, ultra lo-fi ambient field recordings, simultaneously distant yet inviting." (Heavy Metal Kids)

"Almost want to call this delicate, fragile, it isn’t though, this is quietly strong, rather beautiful, soothing, some of it is deliciously minimal, the almost dusty sound on Shahid & Irfan is wonderful, it all is actually. Brilliant production, if production is the right description, real art of sound, minimal, painterly, about the space around the sound as much as the warm sound itself, kind of Super Eight feel to it. Gorgeous."
- The Organ Zine
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“A country haunting itself, this is England in the dying embers of climatic, societal and political change; scored by a unique theme of recordings that masterfully encompass the erosion of action, living and hope in the “grave era”.”
- Dominic Valvona, Monolith Cocktail
monolithcocktail.com/2024/02/20/the-digest-for-february-2024-new-music-in-brief-the-social-playlist-archives/

“brimming with smartly realised ideas.”
- Noel Gardner, The Quietus
thequietus.com/articles/33844-luke-j-murray-excel-dj-boofy-lust-pattern

“An ambiance fills the sounds as beeps are spread out. This definitely starts with that feeling as if we are floating in space. We slowly move through as if the sound is being produced through an old projector. There is just that overall feeling of watching an old film, but it's just moving as well to where it feels like we're sending a message from space that we've completed our mission but we are not coming home.”
- Raised By Cassettes
raisedbycassettes.blogspot.com/2024/04/cassette-review-poppy-h-grave-era-cruel.html
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Multi-instrumentalist, field recordist and producer Poppy H captures sound and music via an openly recording phone, before mixing and mastering on the same device. This ultra lo-fi approach befits H’s improvisational and instinctive tendencies on this,his follow up to debut album "NOTHING IS PERFECT, EVERYTHING IS PERFECT", which The Wire described as showing that "true strangeness comes in the minutiae of unexpected places, the rattle and hum of analogue media or the hubbub of childhood memories."

"GRAVE ERA" draws a line in the sand between domestic and global conflict; in a world where overpriced flat whites and skinny lattes are served against a rolling backdrop of death, destruction and displacement. A class war rages externally and internally as H moves around the UK capital voyeuristically bottling fleeting exchanges, an outsider looking in, before heading to the eastern most point of the country to chant aloud, and onto his own living spaces where the familiar assault of modern appliances and construction work meet melancholy and hauntingly hopeful passages of improvised and crafted electronic and acoustic compositions.

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released February 2, 2024

Written, produced and performed by Poppy H 2023

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