DYLAN HENNER - Star Dream FM - LP - Vinyl [OCT 17]

LP - Standard Edition Black Vinyl. 

Enigmatic UK producer Dylan Henner announces new album of deeply considered and choral-laced experimental ambient music Star Dream FM, said to be taped from a mysterious radio broadcast that plays his favourite memories from adolescence.

Though (clearly) fictional, the backdrop to new album Star Dream FM represents a tactile canvas on which the record’s true meaning is painted. It is, through Henner’s now-characteristic employment of ambient-textured synthesis, marimba, digital choir, and processed voice, a study of late adolescence and the experience of being seventeen.

Little is known about Dylan Henner, who landed on the ambient scene in 2020 with cassette releases for Phantom Limb, Belgian label Dauw, and cult tastemakers AD93. He barely promotes himself publicly, instead choosing to communicate through disarmingly poetic song titles. His debut album “The Invention of the Human” (AD93, 2020 - a recipient of BBC 6Music’s Album of the Year honours) responds to a set of philosophical questions - what exactly makes us human? What good is civilisation when there’s so much misery attached to it? How will technology affect humanity in the long run? In 2022, he released follow-up You Always Will Be on AD93, which traced the course of a single life from birth, to childhood, to adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle-age, old-age, and demise. He has also covered Raymond Scott, Terry Riley, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Su Tissue among numerous further projects.

Tracklist: 

A1. I Borrowed my Dad's Car But We Had Nowhere To Go So We Drove Around Listening to Music All Night

A2. The House Party Went On So Long We Talked and Drank and Played Music til The Morning

A3. I Used To See Her On The Way Home from School and She Lit Up The Sky with her Beauty

A4. We Ditched School and Climbed Over the Neighbour's Fence to Swim in their Pool All Day

B1. We Were Dancing in Her Bedroom and then We Made Out

B2. We Walked all the Way to the Lake and The Water Was So Still We Jumped in Naked

B3. She Broke Up With Me Before our Last Class so I Walked to the Beach On My Own

B4. Her Parents Were Out So We Shared a Joint and Floated Around In Her Pool Under the Starlight