Bibio - haikuesque (when she laughs)

Name: Bibio - haikuesque (when she laughs)
Uploaded: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released June 22, 2009 on Warp Records as track 5 of Ambivalence Avenue, 'haikuesque (when she laughs)' represents Bibio's Stephen Wilkinson at the crossroads of UK bedroom folk, glitchy electronica, and hauntological sound-memory practice. The album marked Bibio's Warp debut and critical breakthrough, with Pitchfork ranking it 33rd…

2009 · Late Noughties Indie Electronic / Hauntological Revival (2009) · music video

Bibio - haikuesque (when she laughs) music video

2009Late Noughties Indie Electronic / Hauntological Revival (2009)Hauntological folk-electronic / UK bedroom indie (Warp Records 2009 era)

What this video is

Released June 22, 2009 on Warp Records as track 5 of Ambivalence Avenue, 'haikuesque (when she laughs)' represents Bibio's Stephen Wilkinson at the crossroads of UK bedroom folk, glitchy electronica, and hauntological sound-memory practice. The album marked Bibio's Warp debut and critical breakthrough, with Pitchfork ranking it 33rd best album of 2009. Wilkinson's practice of blending acoustic guitars, field…

Why it matters

A landmark document of the 2009 UK hauntological folk-electronic movement, 'haikuesque' distils the Bibio aesthetic — lo-fi nostalgia, field-recording naturalism, acoustic-electronic hybridity — into its most concentrated visual and sonic form. The video's refusal of conventional music-video…

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