Silent Land Time Machine
&hope still (IQR001/TLR045)

Edt. of 300 on 180g vinyl // 500 on CD // Digital DL | RELEASED OCT 23 2008
Purchase CD @ IQR STORE // DL @ IQR bandcamp

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Collaboratively released with TIME-LAG RECORDS // Pressing of 500 on CD, with full
color offset printed triple fold-out covers, front & back, with japanese woven CD sleeves

US (+$2) //////// WORLD (+$5)

***Digital DL available @ the IQR bandcamp***

ALBUM DESCRIPTION

From TIME-LAG catalog: “here’s something a bit different… a collaborative release with the band’s own indian queen label. pretty hard to pin this one down, but its a trip for sure. a rather mysterious one man band solo outing from texas, who builds up layer upon layer of violin, viola, acoustic guitar, slippery electric slide, percussion, electronics, accordion, buried vocals, and found sounds into haunted, rollicking, thick sonic blankets of sound. many simple parts entwined, looped, and orchestrated into an undulating whole, like naive bedroom folkrock filtered through some blissed out minimalist phase experiment. ecstatic, post-psychedelic chamber rock maybe? really doesn’t sound like much else out there, but its instantly enjoyable, energized, and grooves freely in its own uplifting way.

packaged in ghostly and subtly beautiful offset printed foldout cover, with foldout insert. 180gm vinyl. limited, numbered edition of 300 copies (CD’s in a tri-fold, double sided, offset printed cover. woven japanese inner sleeves. edition of 500).”

SELECTED PRESS

*&hope still has been featured on the BBC’s Radio 3, the CBC, and WMFU*

“A very solid debut, this one is worth seeking out…” – Almostcool

“One of the more evocative band names in awhile, and with music to match — this one-man act’s rustic loops and collages are a bit like a backwater Panda Bear or Godspeed You Black Emperor, with all the hypnotic, emotive power that suggests.”
- Allmusic Blog

“This is pretty much the most unclassifiable and impossible to pigeonhole piece of music I’ve ever listened to. Layers upon layers of instruments eventually transform these songs into full-on rural outsider barnburning jam sessions. I won’t go on and on about this, as I will only talk in circles about how hard it is to define, but I can tell you that I could not recommend it more enthusiastically. 100% essential.” – OMG Vinyl

“Found noise, static and loops punctuate traditional piano, guitar and wordless choruses, making each song a unique testament to the modern songwriter’s devotion to the real. We hear it’s called chamber folk, and we’re hooked.” – Austinist

“…an excellent effort from Texan one-man band…for an album recorded in a bedroom in the autumn of 2006 and winter of 2007-08, its production values and high level of musicianship and professionalism actually make it rather difficult to critique, except only to endorse it with high praise.” – Foxy Digitalis

“Earthy, realistic optimism seeps out of &hope still with every passing second…While Silent Land Time Machine have control over their sound in &hope still, one can’t help but wonder if this was beginner’s luck, or if the one man show simply is just that good. Only time will show what the case may be, but for now we should be lucky to have such a beautiful release.”
- The Silent Ballet (RIP)

“&hope still is all shades sepia via sound. Built on layers of acoustic instrumentation combined with various audio ghosts and samples, Silent Land Time Machine is a chamber folk orchestra of beautiful construction. Similarly wonderful, is the fact that this “orchestra” has been constructed with only two hands.” – Forest Gospel

Headphone Commute’s “Essentials of 2008”

“…the underlying songforms are highly engaging and the hodgepodge collection of sounds work in such an alchemical way that it all just inexplicably comes together perfectly…we must say it’s one of the most refreshing and unique records we’ve heard in awhile! – Aquarius Records

“&hope still is a really sympathetic record and it has content for many listens to come. This music is fragile yet powerful – it’s something you don’t have to argue about but you feel comfortable being with.” – Noise.Fi