Martin Brugger
The Shell (LP)
SQM015
Squama
48Format: 12inch VinylRelease: 22.05.2026Features: 180g
TRACKLIST
- A1: ) Downward Curving 00:03:41 Min
- A2: ) Knees, Hands, Shoulders, Teeth 00:03:04 Min
- A3: ) Wounded Dove 00:03:55 Min
- A4: ) The Brilliant Light Between The Ropes 00:02:15 Min
- A5: ) Thick Of The Fray 00:02:15 Min
- B1: ) I Can Really Stand A Good Deal 00:03:03 Min
- B2: ) Souvenir From Flanders 00:03:44 Min
- B3: ) White About The Gills 00:02:38 Min
- B4: ) Malachite 00:03:47 Min
- B5: ) Coasting Around 00:03:33 Min
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He knew now that this was the only way with life. He knew now that fear and pleasure go together like the nut and the shell. - Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel (1929)
Five years after his debut Music For Video Stores (2020), Squama co-founder Martin Brugger is back on the label with his new album The Shell.
It's an introspective record on which field recordings, noisy synths and lo-fi folk guitars yield contemplative emotions with a veiled dream-pop sensibility, the sparse instrumentation and an eerie atmosphere mirroring the quarrels of the inner self.
Otherwise created in solitude in his Munich studio, the record features two contributions from label mate Lilian Mikorey (aka PILLBERT).
