From the Cable to the Grave

by Vernon & Burns

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1.	Pocari Sweat 02:20	buy track
2.	Waiting Faithfully at the Doorway to the Sky 03:51	buy track
3.	The Appetite Beneath the Ground 02:16	buy track
4.	Lunatic Pulp 01:18	buy track
5.	The Cortical Night 01:38	buy track
6.	Little Tombs of Illustrious Creatures 01:41	buy track
7.	The Geometry of Her Face, The Diagram of Her Bones 01:55	buy track
8.	Murder Minerals 02:39	buy track
9.	The Elegant Declensions of Serialised Violence 00:25	buy track
10.	An Act of Vengeance Against Former Pleasures 01:36	buy track
11.	Love That Survives Death; Death That Survives Love 01:42	buy track
12.	The State Dismantling Corps 01:30	buy track
13.	Well I Think This Ended Our Collaboration with the Municipal Culture and Leisure Department 01:38	buy track
14.	Descending Triangle 03:18	buy track
15.	A Concert of Secret Levers 01:29	buy track
16.	Seductive Flux 01:55	buy track
17.	Capitalism vs C.R.O.T.C.H. (Always Thinking Suitcase) 02:11	buy track
18.	Memory Clinic 13:22	buy track
19.	One Whiskey to One Tear 02:17	buy track

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Vernon & Burns (Mark Vernon & Barry Burns) are a duo of sound makers who create radio plays, records and performances through a mix of samples, field recordings, voice and music.

‘From the Cable to the Grave’ includes 19 new tracks featuring harmony bombs, erotic grotesque nonsense, frolicsome demon beats, stimulators of vice, confusion ciphers, faster silences, declarations of indulgence, necessary noise, abstract paradises, and excerpts from the minutes from the AGM of the Dream Prognostication Circle & Astral Radiation Trance Club.

In summary: A once in a lifetime’s clinch with gaiety.

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“A creepy, absurd tone bleeds through, as if occupying a weird realm somewhere between a 1960s sci-fi B movie and a warped episode of 80s kids’ programme Button Moon. It gives the impression of cosmic lifeforms being passed through a supermarket checkout or maybe wired up to a beeping life support machine, as muffled ghost songs float around in the background. An out of body experience of bubbling, baffling noises.”
(Claire Sawers, The Wire Magazine)

“A deliciously bewildering journey… one rarely finds such meticulous attention to detail, such gentle and not-inappropriate humour, and such compassion for the foibles of the human race.”
(Ed Pinsent, Sound Projector)

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released July 9, 2017

Artwork by Oliver Pitt

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Vernon & Burns Glasgow, UK

Dredging the kleptomanic plunderground, this singular double act in stereo create aural mystery from oral history. Rarely agreeing upon anything, their music is a tug-of-war between music hall and musique concrète. From the gently sublime to the raucously ridiculous they create a soundtrack to the notion of nonsense. ... more

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