{"id":27972,"date":"2018-01-26T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T22:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27972"},"modified":"2019-06-02T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T23:41:32","slug":"experimental-south-london-artist-reindeer-shares-gritty-video-description-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27972","title":{"rendered":"Reindeer shares gritty video for &#8216;Description of a Struggle&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experimental South-London artist Reindeer shares the gritty video for <em>Description of a Struggle<\/em>, lifted from the genre-bending debut album \u2018Field Reports from the Western Lands\u2019 due 30th March via Anette Records. Watch the video clip via YouTube below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IzGgZ2JPrHY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After almost a decade in the making, James Reindeer\u2019s first official full-length solo debut, Field Reports from the Western Lands, arrives appropriately in the spring of 2018 as a testament to our current blazing backdrop of social and political catastrophe; Reindeer\u2019s anguished vocals backed by Nimrod\u2019s sonic landscape of breathtaking post-rock tones and loops beckon you home to neon-lit ruins\u2014Reindeer himself leading you by the hand through sprouting black monoliths out from a cracked, dying world.<\/p>\n<p>A conceptual sequel to the fbcabric &amp; reindeer &#8216;It\u2019s Not Who You Know, It\u2019s Whom You Know,&#8217; this 16-track limited edition double vinyl in 4 parts utilizes various \u2018field recordings,\u2019 from environmental sounds throughout his travels in Europe and North America to dialogue samples of President Truman and Robert Oppenheimer, taking you on an experiential journey through the fallen Western World of murky dreams and alluring weightlessness\u2014no, this is not an album that\u2019s going to offer you any definiteness; rather, it endeavors to move you through the cavernous entrails of your own confused feelings via hallucinogenic impressions, spectral mirages and tones, carrying you from track to track through the chemical skies and radioactive rubble.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention that this album also includes a hauntingly gorgeous lyric booklet with original drawings by Reymundo Perez III (AKA Mildew of Papervehicle), and a digital download code as well, the entire package reminiscent of Reindeer\u2019s notoriously complex and involved hand-crafted \u2018Fragments from the Field\u2019 packages containing forged documents from a seemingly eternal, glitchy atomic field.<\/p>\n<p>Like a dreamer awakening to find the horror of his prison cell, except the horror is that the bars are nowhere to be seen\u2014just the harrowing knowing of their existence\u2014so it is to be submerged into the shifting, pulsating aural landscapes of this corroding lyrical maze, but with Reindeer guiding us through, his voice a blooming light amongst the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Reindeer, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sut1.co.uk\/sLLlAYu-sJjsv7vY2YaLpPL3pfyn__T8ra-o-vn3_eHot-Ht7bK2vu3b3jHf3reUlZKQwdanwtqvz9mqh4-ClYKAlp2bkpKdi9SYk5DbMkc.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jamesreindeer.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2181912.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/27466--f794d48cde301203acbac7963a3d667a.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Experimental South-London artist Reindeer shares the gritty video for Description of a Struggle, lifted from the genre-bending debut album \u2018Field Reports from the Western Lands\u2019 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27972\" title=\"Reindeer shares gritty video for &#8216;Description of a Struggle&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,4713,23,28,29,30],"tags":[7119,7116,7118,7117],"class_list":["post-27972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronic-music","category-hip-hop","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","tag-anette-records","tag-description-of-a-struggle","tag-field-reports-from-the-western-lands","tag-reindeer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/27466-580d51769be2138886cb8a3d17f79085.jpg?fit=640%2C360","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-7ha","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28718,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=28718","url_meta":{"origin":27972,"position":0},"title":"Reindeer unveils \u2018Field Reports from the Western Lands\u2019 video","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"March 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Experimental South-London artist Reindeer shares stark urban video for Field Reports from the Western Lands, which is lifted from his genre-bending debut album due March 30th via Anette Records. 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