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Ultramarine - This Time Last Year
'This Time Last Year' is the sixth album by UK electronic duo Ultramarine (Ian Cooper & Paul Hammond), and their first full-length release for 15 years.
Featuring all-new material and recorded in the band’s isolated studio on the edge of the Essex marshes, the album ebbs and flows in mood like the nearby Blackwater estuary. Working with a palette of vintage drum machines, analogue synths, textural samples, acoustic recordings, electric bass & heavily treated guitar, the songs were born out of captured live studio performances. Cooper and Hammond then rewired their initial sketches through a series of hands-on, lo-fi effects chains, blurring the edges between acoustic and electronic elements. The result is an organic, playful feel, leaving the music room to breathe and carrying distinct echoes of the band’s previous work.
'This Time Last Year' is the sixth album by UK electronic duo Ultramarine (Ian Cooper & Paul Hammond), and their first full-length release for 15 years.
Featuring all-new material and recorded in the band’s isolated studio on the edge of the Essex marshes, the album ebbs and flows in mood like the nearby Blackwater estuary. Working with a palette of vintage drum machines, analogue synths, textural samples, acoustic recordings, electric bass & heavily treated guitar, the songs were born out of captured live studio performances. Cooper and Hammond then rewired their initial sketches through a series of hands-on, lo-fi effects chains, blurring the edges between acoustic and electronic elements. The result is an organic, playful feel, leaving the music room to breathe and carrying distinct echoes of the band’s previous work.