Yes Please and Remote Control Records are thrilled to announce that Canadian born, Sydney based solo producer Lavurn Lee aka. Guerre (pron. Gair) will release his debut album Ex Nihilo (pron. ex nee hee lo) on Friday 4th July.
Earlier this morning XLR8R premiered ‘Deatheat’ – the first offering from Ex Nihilo. They described ‘Deatheat’ as “a tranquilizing blend of delicate textures that appear as moving as they are fragile… the intimate cut establishes a hazy atmosphere, sucking listeners into a vacuum of lush, ambient sonics throughout its opaque course.”
Ex Nihilo was recorded over the course of a year in Lee’s garage with a laptop and some production help from Marcus Whale (Collarbones). Of the record Lee’s says, “It was a pretty personal pursuit, the songs had a lot of time on their own. I would make the tiniest changes over a prolonged period, so in a way it feels like it came out of nothing. My older stuff was so much more emotional, personal and.sentimental, whereas the new album is much more disconnected from that. It was an opportunity to see what type of music I could make if I ‘removed’ a level of myself. I started making ‘dance’ music, because of the environment that I had surrounded myself in, both socially and sonically. In this album there’s a new way of thinking about expressing in rhythmic value more so than melodic or structural value… it’s some kids fucked up way of making emotional rhythm based music.”
Guerre’s enigmatic music has been labelled everything from neo soul, avant ghetto to lo-fi R&B. Ex Nihilo follows on from Guerre’s 2011 debut EP Darker My Love as well as 2012’s AA-sided single ‘Rashad (Loose Pace)’ / ‘For Qwanisha.’
Guerre – Ex Nihilo is released Friday 4th July via Yes Please / Remote Control.‘Deatheat’ is available digitally Friday 9th May.
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