Description

The new kaleidoscopic sound of Stephen Wilkinson (aka Bibio), where pastoral meets digital in a summery haze.

Following on from Ambivalence Avenue and 2011s Mind Bokeh

Off kilter pop songs that sound like nothing else. The Times

A gloriously mind bending collection The Fly

Bibios music takes a fresh turn to create Silver Wilkinson, a record where the pastoral and the digital, the playful and the mournful, sit neatly alongside one another, with a renewed focus on the organic and live.

Lead single À tout à lheure is a blast of summery fresh air, having been recorded in Bibios garden using shears and watering cans as instruments. Stephen explains: Although the majority of my tracks get started and finished in my studio, I occasionally take things outside where Ive found the process and the result to be refreshing. The recording of À tout à lheure started out in my garden on a gorgeous sunny day when it felt morally wrong to be hidden away indoors.

Stephen continues: If there was a preconceived idea before this album started coming together, it was a fairly vague one: to focus more on an organic and live sound and to record more guitar and other live instrumentation. After working long and hard on an album, however, I crave change like you might crave spring after winter. I love seasonal change, it affects me a lot. I like the idea of comparing albums to seasons they stand alone yet are part of a bigger story. They complement each other. So this album, to an extent, started out with the desire for a new season, contrasting somewhat with the previous.

For fans of Toro Y Moi, Flying Lotus, The Avalanches, Gold Panda, Caribou, Boards Of Canada, Four Tet, Washed Out, Neon Indian.