rar! very excited about the two upcoming Roof Light releases!

Due out on monday, 14th June is the full length album ‘Kirkwood Gaps’:

Following soon after will be a 4 track 12″ EP entitled “What Makes You So Special”, currently off for pressing at the moment.

Check out this sampler with two tracks from each:
Roof Light – sampler for forthcoming album and 12″ by sideb0ard

Boomkat have a review up on their site already, and very nice it is too:
“In the space of three releases for Styrax, MoM and L2S Roof Light has marked himself out as a producer to keep a close eye on. For Highpoint Lowlife he drops debut album ‘Kirkwood Gaps’, a hugely varied advance on the shades of dubstep and garage we’ve heard previously. From BoC-esque pastoral hip-hop ‘Kite Tails And Redwings’ the album moves in a gradual upwards curve with the Blue Daisy-esque swing compressions of ‘Daytrips and Starlight’, the Spacek-style brukken beats of ‘Outline To Cross’ into the Burial-trippin’ ‘Taro’ and beyond. A sumptuous listen, Recommended!”

The 12″ follows shortly after, already seeing heavy rotation from the likes of MJ Cole and Hot City, a four track EP of dancefloor killers which covers the spectrum of current UK club memes, from the 2step rhythms of title track “What Makes You So Special”, the slo-mo house of “Face Up To Your Sensibilities”, through to the Todd Edwards influenced of “Prayin’ To T.E.”, and the moodier down-tempo sound of the closing “Cakes, Biscuits, and How’s Yer Father”.

The album drops next week, and 12″ is currently being pressed, due for release at the end of June.

Then… bit of a big announcement actually!

The 12″ will mark our last vinyl release, as I begin a gradual wind down of the label over the summer. Yup, closing the label up for good! Following the two Roof Light releases we have three artist albums due from Depakote, Erstalub and The Village Orchestra, then our last release will be an epic DVD-r compilation in the vein of Analog For Architecture featuring pretty much everyone who was ever released on or worked with the label.

Never fear though, this certainly won’t mark any break in output from the artists. (see here for instance!) I however, will be moving on to focus on writing and drawing a graphic novel entitled “74″, set in a near-future post-industrial northern UK city. The book takes a similar form to The Wire television show where the main character is that of the city itself, and where the chapters/seasons focus on the differing individuals and communities who make up the life and colour of the city, communities such as skateboarders who find much freedom in the abandoned concrete and industrial sttures of a once thriving city centre; A burgeoning club and music scene build around the abundance of unused venues and warehouses and lack of police intervention; anarchists and anti-capitalists looking to build a viable and alternative life to that of the mainstream; and of course, the criminal underground and those seeking to evade censorship and the law!

aiiiiiiiiiight, more soon!
thorsten