Mark Pritchard – Under The Sun (2LP)

Album Info Hide Show Artist: Mark Pritchard Album: Under The Sun Released: UK, 2016 Tracklist: A1 ? A2 Give It Your Choir A3 Infrared A4 Falling B1 Beautiful People B2 Sad Alron B3 You Wash My Soul B4 Where Do They Go, The Butterflies C1 Hi Red C2 Ems C3 The Blinds Cage C4 Dawn Of The North D1 Khufu D2 Rebel Angels D3 Under The Sun D4 Cycles Of 9 Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Under the Sun is the kind of record that quietly resets a career. Mark Pritchard had already worn a small museums worth of aliases, from Global Communication with Tom Middleton to Harmonic 313 and Africa Hitech, but in May 2016 he parked the genre hopping and issued a patient, spacious album on Warp that felt like a deep breath. The big surprise wasnt the sound design, which was always his calling card. It was the restraint. A lot of these pieces move without drums, or with pulses so soft they feel like memory. It is ambient music that still cares about songs, and songs that trust negative space. If you know one track, it is probably Beautiful People, the collaboration with Thom Yorke that floated around as an early single. Yorkes voice, pitched and blurred, curls through a lattice of wooden flutes and synth fog. It is mournful but not dour, a slow drift toward light. Pritchard built a world that gives Yorkes phrasing room to ache, and the pair find a shared language, somewhere between folk lament and electronics. Give It Your Choir swings in the other direction. Stephen Wilkinson, better known as Bibio, steps in with a spectral choral hook that Pritchard sets against heavy, monolithic chords. The contrast is thrilling, like standing below a church organ while someone opens every stop at once. There are other voices too, each chosen with care. Linda Perhacs, a cult hero from the 1970s psych folk underground, turns You Wash My Soul into a luminous hymn, her delivery feather light over tones that shimmer and recede. Beans of Antipop Consortium brings a stern spoken cadence to The Blinds Cage, a reminder that Pritchards music can hold tension as well as tranquility. None of these turns feel like feature-for-features sake. They are woven into the albums architecture, arriving as gusts of character that keep the long arc from sagging. Pritchard talked around the time of release about removing default habits, especially drums, and you can hear the clarity that choice brought. Textures carry the rhythm. The opening stretch glows with detuned pads and low end that swells like the sea. Later pieces feel like field recordings refracted through a synth. You catch a glint of early Warp dreaminess, a touch of Planet Mus pastoral side, and of course echoes of Global Communications 76:14, but Under the Sun never leans on nostalgia. It takes that lineage and zeros in on tone, decay, and the space between notes. Critics picked up on this recalibration. The Guardian and Pitchfork both praised the albums patience and world building, while Resident Advisor highlighted its emotional coherence. Fans locked onto the sequencing, how it plays like a long dusk. On vinyl that flow gets even more persuasive. The sides give your ears little intermissions, so the mood returns with fresh color. If you collect Mark Pritchard vinyl, this is the one that somehow feels both essential and understated. Under the Sun vinyl pressings also do right by the low frequencies, which need headroom to bloom rather than smear. There are small details that keep me coming back. The way a single high tone hangs above the mix like a pendant light. The subtle chorus that makes a pad wobble as if played on a slightly warped tape. Even the collaborators sound like instruments instead of guests. Yorkes vocal becomes part of the vapor, Bibios choir like a passing weather system. You could shelve it near ambient classics, but it does not drift off. It listens back. If you are crate digging in a Melbourne record store and you spot a clean copy, do not hesitate. You can also buy Mark Pritchard records online, though this one rewards the ritual, the needle drop, the room going quiet for side A. People often ask where to start with Mark Pritchard albums on vinyl. Under the Sun is a generous entry point, and it keeps paying dividends as your system and your patience improve. It is also the rare modern electronic LP that rewards full-play listens, not just playlist rescue missions. Even years later, it feels timely. Not because it chases new tricks, but because it trusts mood and melody. Under the Sun is careful, humane electronic music, a record that carves out a little sanctuary and invites you to stay awhile. If you are hunting for Under the Sun vinyl among stacks of vinyl records Australia sellers are shipping every day, know this: it holds up, in the living room and in the late-night headphones zone, where it really counts. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review