Bibio - cry! baby!

Name: Bibio - cry! baby!
Uploaded: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released June 22, 2009 on Warp Records as the penultimate track on Bibio's breakthrough album Ambivalence Avenue, 'cry! baby!' sits at the intersection of pastoral British folk and post-IDM electronic abstraction. Bibio (Stephen James Wilkinson, from Wolverhampton, England) had previously recorded for Mush Records before signing to Warp…

2009 · Late-2000s Folktronica & IDM Convergence (2009) · music video

2009Late-2000s Folktronica & IDM Convergence (2009)Folktronica / Warp Records IDM-folk crossover, late 2000s UK independent electronic

What this video is

Released June 22, 2009 on Warp Records as the penultimate track on Bibio's breakthrough album Ambivalence Avenue, 'cry! baby!' sits at the intersection of pastoral British folk and post-IDM electronic abstraction. Bibio (Stephen James Wilkinson, from Wolverhampton, England) had previously recorded for Mush Records before signing to Warp in 2009, bringing a lo-fi, analogue-tape-inflected sonic identity into the…

Why it matters

Represents a key artifact of the late-2000s folktronica and post-IDM pastoral movement, documenting the moment when lo-fi bedroom-folk production values merged with Warp-style electronic distribution and visual culture. The video's single-shot, near-static, hyper-dark aesthetic is a deliberate…

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