Lilacs & Champagne
Fantasy World (purple)
Nearly a decade after their last album, Lilacs & Champagne picks up right where that record, 'Midnight Features Vol. 2: Made Flesh,' left off. With bizarre excursions into pillowy, sentimental made-for-TV music-and children's choirs incanting the blackest dread-filled music the band has conjured to date - 'Fantasy World' is both transcendent and traumatic. Lilacs & Champagne have exaggerated their early record's implications and accelerated their mercurial rearranging of music history by deftly incorporating live instrumentation and samples with equal amounts of deference and disregard. 'Fantasy World' exposes Lilacs & Champagne's deeper lineage as playful tape-collage culture jammers in the vein of legendary sound satirists, Negativland and Severed Heads. Released on deep purple coloured vinyl.