Clark has introduced a new album. Playground in a Lake is out March 26 through Deutsche Grammophon. The album options string ensembles, Oliver Coates taking part in cello, and Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor on clarinet. Listen to the brand new track “Small” beneath.

“I’ve at all times wished to document strings, however really feel there’s this baggage with classical music,” Clark stated in a assertion concerning the new album. “Though I’ve taught myself learn how to learn and write sheet music, I’m not placing that style, or every other style on a silver platter. I’m not from an institutionalised contingent who deem a slender vary of devices ‘the actual stuff’ and every thing else nugatory business pop. I take what I like from that world after which transfer on. I’m simply utilizing it as one other color.” He continued:

So, I began excited about my favorite form of string preparations, like Scott Walker data, the place they exist amongst contrasting parts. Then I began to method the album from a darkish people place, additionally with this heavy ’70s synth model. Then got here the improvisation of musique concrète, and a few of my favorite fashionable classical and sound design obsessions, after which it clicked.

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