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Watch Video For "Aldgate Patterns"
as Premiered on XLR8R HERE
& Download the Track Free HERE
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Little People is the moniker of UK based
downtempo electronic musician Laurent Clerc. He returns with
his second full length album We Are But Hunks Of Wood on Youth
& Progress Records. Along the lines of DJ Shadow, RJD2 and Four
Tet, Little People plays downtempo, intelligent electronic
music. Part beats, bleeps and real live instrumentation, this new record
falls in a place where Bonobo and Explosions in the
Sky would hypothetically meet. Having followed an
unconventional route to success, thanks to in no small part to Pandora radio
generating him huge amounts of exposure, he has seemingly existed outside of
traditional promotional channels.
This new album comes a whole 6 years after his first album
(Mickey Mouse Operation) was released on Illicit
Recordings. His debut, an accomplished ode to late 90's instrumental hip
hop, has gone on to be in the iTunes Top 30 selling electronic albums in
the US for the last 2 years.
We are But Hunks of Wood is a sonic leap
forward for Little People, which establishes him as a key proponent of the
downtempo electronic music scene. Having initially come from the world of
instrumental hip hop where tracks are often more akin to just sketches or
interesting ideas, Laurent Clerc's pieces are fully fledged songs whose
arrangements create a sense of mood and movement, effortlessly going from
nuanced electronic patterns to soaring string arrangements over the course of
the journey. This is no beat tape.
The video for "Aldgate Patterns" was exlusively
premiered on XLR8R this week, and the track is also available
for free download. Little People approached the production company WORK and
directorAdam Amaral aka Master Of Shapes (MoS) to
create the music video. The director recognized that "Aldgate
Patterns" had a strong sense of narrative and that it would
naturaly lend itself to some sort of epic journey. As XLR8R says, "The
piece... was impeccably conceived, shot, and produced, courtesy of Work, and
offers a great introduction to all of the artists involved."
There are many reasons why it has taken time for Little
People to release his follow up record. However, the primary reason is that
he feels he has to reinvent his work methodology through writing and record
his tracks from the ground up. He views sampling as tantamount to taking
another man's 2 bars of inspiration and passing it off as your own. The story
of the samplist making the jump to creating his own material is not new, but
it isn't always a successful one. Laurent has taken the time to make sure
that leap was taken with aplomb.
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Tracklisting:
1. Marzipan Children
2. Eminence Grise
3. Cartouche
4. Aldgate Patterns
5. Wonderland
6. Make Me Better
7. Electrickery
8. Offal Waffle
9. M.N.O.P.Q.
10. Farewell
11. Underland
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