{"id":30598,"date":"2014-05-31T14:18:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T14:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=30598"},"modified":"2014-05-31T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T19:02:19","slug":"wonderland-sessions-ed-harcourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2014\/05\/31\/wonderland-sessions-ed-harcourt\/","title":{"rendered":"WONDERLAND SESSIONS: ED HARCOURT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite tailing a long and hungover drive;\u00a0Ed\u00a0is as affable and eccentric as could be expected of a man whose studio entrance is guarded by a giant rabbit mask and a taxidermic Boar’s head.<\/p>\n

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‘I have this image of an Astronaut floating through space, and he sees Earth and all of its beauty just before it explodes’\u2026 He tells us excitedly queuing up the next sneak listen of his new material before pausing suddenly – ‘It’s gonna sound like people fucking at the end of the world’. \u00a0And with a mission statement like that he’s done well to team up with legendary producer, ‘Flood’, (NIN, Sigur Ros, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds<\/i>), a man who’s no stranger to soundtracking the apocalypse\u2026 The partnership has evidently beckoned out of the shadows the eery, haunting undercurrent that’s lurked in\u00a0Ed’s previous works. The result is a bass absorbed and sinister sound, full of\u00a0Ed’s familiar Poe tinted rhetoric. Everything in the tiny studio vibrates from the low rumble, and a wooden miniature skeleton clinks gently above my head.<\/p>\n