Bibio - Wren Tails

Name: Bibio - Wren Tails
Uploaded: 2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released on 1 April 2016 as track 10 on Bibio's seventh album A Mineral Love (Warp Records), 'Wren Tails' sits within a critically celebrated LP that saw Stephen Wilkinson synthesise '70s/'80s American TV themes, '90s dance, and Americana folk into entirely original recordings. The track was tagged by WhoSampled under the Country/Folk…

2016 · Post-Digital Folktronica / Mid-2010s IDM (2016) · music video

2016Post-Digital Folktronica / Mid-2010s IDM (2016)Warp Records IDM / Folktronica — mid-2010s organic-electronic minimalism

What this video is

Released on 1 April 2016 as track 10 on Bibio's seventh album A Mineral Love (Warp Records), 'Wren Tails' sits within a critically celebrated LP that saw Stephen Wilkinson synthesise '70s/'80s American TV themes, '90s dance, and Americana folk into entirely original recordings. The track was tagged by WhoSampled under the Country/Folk genre, and critics at Bleep.com noted it exemplified 'Americana grassroots folk.'…

Why it matters

Represents a micro-strand of mid-2010s folktronica in which the 'video' dissolves into an ambient visual object — closer to video art than conventional music video. The zero-cut 98-second format mirrors the track's own brevity (1:35 on album) and its role as an interlude, anticipating the…

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