The Range has returned with details of his first album in six years. The producer born James Hinton will share Mercury on June 10 via Domino.
The follow-up to Potential, which was named among Exclaim!'s Best Dance & Electronic Albums of 2016, Mercury finds Hinton building on the sampling techniques of its predecessor over 11 rave- and grime-influenced tracks.
Following the previously shared "Bicameral," new song "Ricercar" arrives today alongside an animated video from directors Stevie Gee and Essy May, and produced by Blink Ink. May also illustrated Mercury's cover art, seen above.
Named for the musical term Hinton first encountered in a biography of Bach, the artist shares of "Ricercar," "At the time I wrote this song, I was listening to a lot of rap from the '90s, specifically DJ Premier beats. As such I was rapidly collecting breaks and had just stumbled upon the Chief Kamanawanalea break by the Turtles and found that if I reordered the sections I could make this kind of palindromic composite break that seemed to propel the song along."
Hinton shared that the song's vocal sample comes from Instagram, where a singer covers Tamar Braxton's "My Man." He explains, "The lyrics are quite personal to me and are a good example of what I try to do in a lot of my songs. I tend to try to find a way to say something that I would never be able to say out loud. I think of my editing of lyrics as a pressure release."
Read Exclaim!'s review of Potential.
Mercury:
1. Bicameral
2. 1995
3. Urethane
4. Ricercar
5. Not For Me
6. Relegate
7. A Tree Day
8. Balm
9. Cantor
10. Every Good Thing
11. Violet
The follow-up to Potential, which was named among Exclaim!'s Best Dance & Electronic Albums of 2016, Mercury finds Hinton building on the sampling techniques of its predecessor over 11 rave- and grime-influenced tracks.
Following the previously shared "Bicameral," new song "Ricercar" arrives today alongside an animated video from directors Stevie Gee and Essy May, and produced by Blink Ink. May also illustrated Mercury's cover art, seen above.
Named for the musical term Hinton first encountered in a biography of Bach, the artist shares of "Ricercar," "At the time I wrote this song, I was listening to a lot of rap from the '90s, specifically DJ Premier beats. As such I was rapidly collecting breaks and had just stumbled upon the Chief Kamanawanalea break by the Turtles and found that if I reordered the sections I could make this kind of palindromic composite break that seemed to propel the song along."
Hinton shared that the song's vocal sample comes from Instagram, where a singer covers Tamar Braxton's "My Man." He explains, "The lyrics are quite personal to me and are a good example of what I try to do in a lot of my songs. I tend to try to find a way to say something that I would never be able to say out loud. I think of my editing of lyrics as a pressure release."
Read Exclaim!'s review of Potential.
Mercury:
1. Bicameral
2. 1995
3. Urethane
4. Ricercar
5. Not For Me
6. Relegate
7. A Tree Day
8. Balm
9. Cantor
10. Every Good Thing
11. Violet
