Another Ruined Landscape, by there are no birds here

Another Ruined Landscape

by there are no birds here

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

name your price

	1.	Frostenden 05:19
	2.	Butterman's Approach 04:24
	3.	Petticoat 04:57
	4.	Lothu Wistoft 05:20
	5.	Chopper 02:28
	6.	Lugworm 04:19
	7.	Johnny All Alone 04:44
	8.	Dag 04:55
	9.	Beaufort 04:49
	10.	Chine 03:21
	11.	Haltley 05:35
	12.	Lowestoft 02:59

about

Graffiti on a railway underpass catches your eye; ‘Another Ruined Landscape’ it proclaims. Looking across at the neighbouring industrial estate, you can see its point.

The nearby public footpath channels you between tightly packed industrial units. Wire fencing protects you from skips overflowing with broken glass, blue drums of unlabeled waste and decaying machinery. Extractor fans drone and drip and whir and groan. Wraiths of snagged plastic sheeting claw at you as you pass. Another Ruined Landscape, indeed.

The footpath expels you on to the raised bank of the river Stour; a natural barrier and border between the Southfolk and the East Saxons. Peering through the haze on your right you can see the distant cranes at Felixstowe as they pierce the heavens. Twisting your gaze left brings a pillbox into focus; open to the elements and gorged with beer cans. Nearby lies the White Bridge sluice as it rests; resolute and impassable. Another Ruined Landscape.

Finally, you drop your eyes and marvel at what the Stour has revealed at low tide. Un-navigable channels and creeks and rills and glorious, glorious mud flats. Birds rise and scream and fall and rest amongst its flotsam. Halyards clank, clank, clank their unsteady rhythms. A near-empty train clacks along with a solitary, masked, passenger staring blankly out at the bleak beauty of Another Ruined Landscape.

Drink it in.

It is yours.

credits

released December 21, 2020

Physical release of Another Ruined Landscape is available from Hream Recordings on ltd apricot cassette and CD - hream.bandcamp.com/album/another-ruined-landscape

Made using lots of Korg Volca Modular, Volca FM, SQ-1 sequencer, Korg Monotron, Monotron Duo,Monotron Delay, Paulstreched samples, field recordings and various homemade spring instruments. These were all run through the Korg NTS-1 - utilising way too much of its sublime submarine reverb.

Inspiration provided by the landscape of the Shotley Peninsula, and the vanishing East coast. Additional inspiration provided by Special Reserve Scotch Whisky - available exclusively on the bottom shelf of the Tesco booze aisle.

license

about

there are no birds here Ipswich, UK

Exploring the landscape of Suffolk with a particular focus on the morphology of rural working class soundscapes.

contact / help

Contact there are no birds here

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like there are no birds here, you may also like:

The Drift
by there are no birds here

supported by 7 fans who also own “Another Ruined Landscape”
go to album
The Ferric Landscape
by Field Lines Cartographer

supported by 5 fans who also own “Another Ruined Landscape”

I'm lying on a sunlounger (indoors) in a post-vaccination fever state, listening to this on headphones at high volume. FLC is doing me right! Infinite Tapes
go to album
Burnthouse Lane
by Burnthouse Lane

supported by 5 fans who also own “Another Ruined Landscape”

A bit late to the show here, but Burnthouse Lane is a wonderfully languid, meandering excursion into the ether. The Creeping Man
go to album
Towards the Blackest Skies
by Rites of Fall

Dark ambient that is cinematic in scope and industrial in tone. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 20, 2019
go to album
Tierra De Las Brujas
by LNR TMB

All proceeds through tomorrow from this dark, claustrophobic synth EP go to RAICES Texas. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 28, 2018
go to album
HARZ
by HARZ

In an homage to early clicks 'n' cuts, Harz employs the art of microsampling to create these nine hypnotic numbers. Bandcamp New & Notable May 15, 2022
go to album
the rock, the watcher, the stranger
by Isolated Community

supported by 4 fans who also own “Another Ruined Landscape”

This latest work from Isolated Community shares a certain kinship with Coil's Hellraiser; music that conjures up dark and dank spaces and forbidden zones. Eerie, sinister, unnerving but also dreamlike and beautiful. F for Fantastic ! Wes Moynihan
go to album