James Holden has released hardly any music of his own since his first album, 2006's The Idiots Are Winning, but he hasn't been a wallflower either. Besides continuing to pluck new talent for his label, Border Community—which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year—he released one of the more deranged editions in the DJ-Kicks series with his 2010 entry of sun-blazed krautrock and pastoral electronica. But still, seven years since his last major body of work, it's safe to say that ears pricked up earlier this spring when word that emerged that he had a new album in the works.
All of these tracks eventually build toward the cathartic galaxy sprawl of "Blackpool Late Eighties." At eight-and-a-half-minutes long, it's by some stretch the record's longest track; it also sounds most like what fans of "A Break in the Clouds" might have thought Holden would sound like come 2013. It's peaceful and distantly serene, but with flickers of dissonance rubbing away at the edges.
01.) 2562 - Nocturnal Drummers
02.) Holden - A Circle Inside a Circle
03.) Beachcombing - C Side
04.) ID - ID
05.) The Shephardtones - Reichardtronics
06.) The Deep Fix - Time Centre
07.) Take - Crystallia
08.) Four Tet - Angel Echoes (Edit)
09.) Adultrock - Chants
10.) Zouk Machine (aka Legowelt) - A Pa Je (Smacked Out Mix)
11.) The Chemical Brothers - Got Glint
12.) Margot - Alt
13.) ID - ID
14.) Amadou Sangare Dit Barry - L'historie De Moussa Tchefari Pere De Sabally
15.) Usio - Arobaini Na Nine
16.) Capracara - King Of The Witches
17.) Death In Vegas - Witch Dance
18.) Holden - Triangle Folds
19.) Luke Abbott - Melody 120
20.) Nike Bordom - Ahacid
21.) Babe and Terror - Epicentro (Duke Dumont Remix)
22.) Francois K - Road of Life (Original Mix)
23.) To Rococo Rot – He Loves Me (Four Tet Remix)
24.) ID - ID
25.) Margot - Tamburo
26.) Four Tet - For These Times
27.) ID - ID
28.) Ripperton - At Peace (feat. Christina Wheeler - I:Cube Tape Mix)
29.) Solar Bears - A Sky Darkly
30.) Cut Copy - Sun God (Andrew Weatherall Mix)
31.) Holden - Gone Feral (Synth Tool)
32.) Angelo Battilani - Monopoly
33.) Zombie Zombie - Watch The World From A Plane
34.) Harmonia - Watussi
35.) ID - ID
36.) ID - ID
37.) Margot - Magico Disco
38.) James Holden - The Illuminations
39.) Margot - Rockstep
40.) Rune Lindbaek & Frisvold - Bozak
41.) Kit Grill - Prism
42.) ID - ID
43.) Suicide - Rocket USA
44.) Koreless - Sun
45.) Wesley Matsell - Total Order of Being
46.) Holden - Renata (Daphni Remix)
47.) Margot - My Sisters
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