(2020) Cavern of Anti-Matter - In Fabric


Review:
In Fabric, the recent film from writer-director Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy), is a phantasmagoric, darkly comic and decidedly kinky tale of a killer dress, the people who end up in its possession, and the creepy staff of the British department store where the item always seems to return. In addition to Marianne Jean-Baptiste, the cast includes Gwendoline Christie (Brienne on Game of Thrones), The Mighty Boosh‘s Julian Barratt, former Magazine/Bad Seeds bassist Barry Adamson, and a scene-stealing Fatma Mohamed as the head clerk/witch. In Fabric is also notable for its score, which was composed by Cavern of Anti-Matter, the group led by Stereolab‘s Tim Gane. It’s a perfect fit, mixing harpsichord with unsettling waves of synthesizers and psych-out sound effects. Says Strickland: “I was a fan of Stereolab and so much of the music I fell in love with was because of their recommendations whenever they were interviewed. Using Steven Stapleton’s music in my first film indirectly came about from first hearing Nurse with Wound on the joint Crumb Duck release with Stereolab. Stereolab were a whole world, what with their championing of other bands through their Duophonic label. After meeting Tim and talking about film it made complete sense to ask him if he would do something. That was unusual in that I didn’t have any specific project in mind. Tim sent me some very long demos to help me write, he implicitly understood that longer tracks are more conducive to writing. Elements of some of those demos worked their way into In Fabric. It was a luxury to work that way, usually, musicians are only approached after writing.”





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Genre: ambient
Source: CD
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits