FAR CASPIAN - The Last Remaining Light - LP - Black Vinyl [JUL 14]

LP - Black Vinyl. The sophomore album from Irish Singer/Songwriter/Producer Joel Johnston.

Far Caspian is the project of singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Joel Johnston. Recording, playing and mixing everything himself across a catalogue of EPs and a debut record he has built upon this to become a fully self-contained and unique artist directing his own videos, shooting his press shots, creating his own artwork and starting a record label to do the same for other artists. 

Following Ways To Get Out - sophomore album The Last Remaining Light isn’t a follow up record but more so a departure into a different feel to his previous material. Joel’s influences for the new record lean heavily towards the late 90’s/2000’s alternative scene with references to Autolux’s doubled guitars and expressive drumming, Sparklehorse mixed with The Radio Dept. vocal style and ‘Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind’ styled electronic elements. Written and recorded in another makeshift studio in the basement of his record label’s office building the album lyrics depicts Joel’s reflection on being thrust back into a post-covid world where everything clicks back into repetitive patterns from day-to-day and how trying to find purpose within the modern world feels like an isolating and pressurised process. Rather than being introspective the stories within the songs reflect the people he saw day after day on his way to the studio, and how he imagined and empathised about the same challenges for others occupied behind their daily patterns of rinse and repeat. The result is a multi-layered record with moments of enlightened reflection in equal measure to inspection of the darker moments that ultimately come part and parcel with navigating life.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Commuter Repeating
2. The Last Remaining Light
3. Arbitrary Task
4. Choice
5. Answer

Side B
1. First Warning Shot
2. Own
3. Pet Architec
4. Cyril
5. Pool