a young person's guide to beth gripps

by caroline mckenzie

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Pops Margree Superb round up of the Beth Gripps oeuvre to date. Expect grizzled electronics and oily ambience. Pale Red Dot is a highlight, like Lou Reed’s Street Hassle transmitted from a broken satellite wearily circling a dying star.

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1.	seaborne 05:19	buy track
2.	choke 04:10	buy track
3.	singing 05:39	buy track
4.	wound 06:30	buy track
5.	printthrough 08:48	buy track
6.	discolouration 06:51	buy track
7.	one thin wire (crash #74) 09:32	buy track
8.	false ending 05:29	buy track
9.	the trouble with disappearing 11:40	buy track
10.	thought spirals 12:18	buy track
11.	dislocation 12:04	buy track
12.	unclean 04:56	buy track
13.	the pattern and the stress 09:27	buy track
14.	the intrusion 16:59	buy track
15.	the overwhelm 17:33	buy track
16.	the blood 22:56	buy track
17.	the first five minutes after bleeding 05:00	buy track
18.	enter the ringfort 04:09	buy track
19.	twelve minutes 04:51	buy track
20.	half-tangled swirl 04:02	buy track
21.	none of your colours 03:56	buy track
22.	tear 03:47	buy track
23.	all i wanted was to fade into nothing 25:02	buy track
24.	walls, buildings, glass etc 04:58	buy track
25.	pinioned 02:31	buy track
26.	how to trick your skin 04:18	buy track
27.	whirled around I 04:46	buy track
28.	whirled around II 03:57	buy track
29.	the tigers have found me and i do not care 19:40	buy track
30.	mother/daughter/neither 15:19	buy track
31.	into the fourth frame 06:05	buy track
32.	precipice 03:07	buy track
33.	exile 01:04	buy track
34.	the exact height of buildings 08:06	buy track
35.	a special place we never throught of 02:20	buy track
36.	bravery 04:29	buy track
37.	the introjection 07:10	buy track
38.	wolves behind 04:06	buy track
39.	exhale 01:28	buy track
40.	pale red dot 10:57	buy track
41.	brrrptzzap (the subject) 04:19	buy track
42.	a hum (at 3 am) 16:41	buy track
43.	set at nought 02:20	buy track
44.	an anagram of hope 11:21	buy track
45.	battlefield rest 02:52	buy track
46.	the flowersound 03:06	buy track
47.	thtrblrwthdspprng 06:17	buy track
48.	(no longer at this address) 16:51	buy track

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with the exception of 2 tracks donated to fundraising compilations, this is the complete beth gripps, presented chronologically in order of release with the addition of 5 previously unheard tracks.

some remastering has been applied to the earlier releases.

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released October 22, 2021

tracks 1 - 5 - originally released as "bravery"
tracks 6 - 9 - originally released as "the trouble with disappearing"
tracks 10 - 13 - originally released as "the pattern and the stress"
tracks 14 - 17 - originally released as "always bleeding"
tracks 18 - 22 - original released as "crash #75"
track 23 - originally released as "all i wanted was to fade into nothing"
tracks 24 - 29 - originally released as "the tigers have found me and i do not care"
track 30 - originally released as "mother/daughter/neither"
tracks 31 - 40 - originally released as "the exact height of buildings"
tracks 41 - 43 - originally released as "taless" and recorded for TUSK Virtual 2020.
tracks 44 - 48 - previously unreleased

(NB - track 17 - "the first five minutes after bleeding" - was originally a 'hidden' track, contained in the download of "always bleeding" but not available for streaming)

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caroline mckenzie Glasgow, UK

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