Stumbleine has today premiered his new single ‘Catastrophette’, the third single from his upcoming album ‘Deleted Scene’, dropping June 14th via Monotreme Records.
Stumbleine (aka Peter Cooper) has a unique way about constructing his music in that he builds the tension and momentum in a natural way, almost like a brilliant screenplay for a film. Also, the music has that personal intricacy about it that can relate to anyone from anywhere in the world. Think M83 meets Sigur Rós. Not in style, but in execution and originality. I can’t help but feel immersed in the world that ‘Catastrophette’ creates as I listen to it. Subtle yet variant. Feeling with healing. Closure in emotion but not in the longing. This is what music is meant to be.
About Stumbleine & ‘Deleted Scene’
Deleted Scene, overflows with beautiful nostalgia-tinged electronica. The album is steeped with cloud-like beauty, with opener and recent single I Can Stop Anytime I Like fusing addictive sampled vocals with soft, glassy guitars, as if a reflecting pool of the listeners’ memories.
Elsewhere on the album, Ursa Minor Sleeps Forever is fittingly sleepy, circling soft slow synth arpeggios in a dreamy haze, a sound built upon by Somnia to an epiphany-like string bed, never straying too far from Stumbleine’s serene haven of melodic grace, while on Catastrophette, Stumbleine crafts a more dramatic and poignant web of sound, as if running through the memories created by the rest of Deleted Scene.
On Catastrophette, the final album track, snippets of rnb vocals ebb and flow over a backdrop of guitar and strings, interspersed with dreamlike passages of spoken words.
‘Stumbleine’ is the alias of Peter Cooper. With roots in the UK post rock scene, the reclusive producer began blending slow dream-like pop with fractured lo-fi beats as Stumbleine in 2012. Melancholic rnb vocals ebb and flow above submerged guitar ballads. Sand blasted samples intertwine with broken beats to create music with a nostalgic fragile warmth. Stumbleine is known for a DIY ethic, releasing music directly to fans or via the independent label Monotreme Records.’
The new album as a whole is an escape to a dream-state of Stumbleine’s making, captivating, yet familiar, and completely enveloping. According to Peter, “Deleted scene refers to the memories that play over and over inside your own head, replaying hazy copies of hazy copies that evolve into a bittersweet fever dream. Everybody has their own unique collection of deleted scenes slowly distorting and fading away.”
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