PEOPLE LIKE US - Welcome Abroad


DISCREPANT
Ambient / Experimental / Synth
New Vinyl
LP / 16.50 EUR

Sing
What Will I Do
Push The Clouds Away
The Sound Of The End Of Music
Wonderful Wonderful
Hush
Driving Flying Rising Falling
The Atlantic Conveyor
Wandering
Ever

Continuing our ambitious People Like Us vinyl reissue program with Welcome Aboard – a strangely relevant 10-year-old album (originally released in May 2011) when People Like Us aka Vicki Bennett became stranded in the US after the Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption closed much of northern Europe’s airspace.

Volcanically marooned in Baltimore and NYC, Bennett utilized some of her “free” time to work on the album and even gained audio contributions from fellow experimental musicians Jason Willett (of Half Japanese) and M.C. Schmidt (of Matmos) via her extended stay.

Bennett derived thematic material of displacement, travel, and a longing for elsewhere from the natural disaster that caused her own predicament. Now strangely echoed by the Covid-19 outbreak and the various grounding of planes and stay at home policies worldwide.

Sing
What Will I Do
Push The Clouds Away
The Sound Of The End Of Music
Wonderful Wonderful
Hush
Driving Flying Rising Falling
The Atlantic Conveyor
Wandering
Ever