Lippard Arkbro Lindwall How do I know if my cat likes me Vinyl LP 2025
1. Timing
2. Unavailable
3. Did You Know?
4. Modern Spanking
5. A Space of Transit
6. The Long Goodbye
7. At Last I Am Free
How do I know if my cat likes me? is the first offering from organists Ellen Arkbro and Hampus Lindwall with visual artist Hanne Lippard, an existential meditation on the empty expanses of our automated everyday. First developed during Arkbro and Lippardâs 2023 residency at La Becque in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland, the album satirizes, in prim deadpan, the stultifying aesthetics of corporate life, from hold music to online banking. How do I know if my cat likes me? extends the lineage of Roberts Ashley and Barryâs droll concept poetry, hammering at the sounds of language until they dislodge all signifieds through pleasurably numbing repetition. Listening to the record is like doing a Captcha over and over until all the characters fuzz to hieroglyphs, or finding yourself mired in a tautological customer-service argumentâexcept that, after you dead-end at nonsense, you stumble into an unexpectedly transcendent beauty, where language flips from pure function to pure aesthetic, shimmering with possibility. Even subtle ruptures in lyrical or musical patterns can trigger a fundamental shift in the world of the song. Throughout the record, strict formalism and minimalism beget narrative. âThe long goodbyeâ imagines an excruciating dialogue between acquaintances who canât politely disengage: âItâs my pleasure!â deadpans Lippard, who replies to herself, âPleasure is all mine! / See you soon! / See you next time! / See you then!â Though the lines recycle the same few parting words, a mysterious causality accumulates in the minute variations, creating a narrative arc less for the characters of the song than for the listener, who might confront despair, nihilistic humor, or profound gratitude at the capacity of art to encompass any of thisânot necessarily in that order. Elsewhere, as âModern Spankingâ free-associates its way from the phrase âonline bankingâ toward âbreathing down your neck bankingâ and âsexy but bankrupt banking,â a whole world of perfunctory pleasures comes into focus. While minimalist movements in music and visual art foster a certain situatedness of the view, âModern Spankingâ evokes the slick, frictionless minimalism of an upscale mall: a crowd of desultory passersby drifting between sex and money, fantasy and reality, scattered attention and intense distraction. In a world like this, the distinction between banking and spanking becomes negligible.
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$13.80Lippard Arkbro Lindwall How do I know if my cat likes me Vinyl LP 2025
1. Timing
2. Unavailable
3. Did You Know?
4. Modern Spanking
5. A Space of Transit
6. The Long Goodbye
7. At Last I Am Free
How do I know if my cat likes me? is the first offering from organists Ellen Arkbro and Hampus Lindwall with visual artist Hanne Lippard, an existential meditation on the empty expanses of our automated everyday. First developed during Arkbro and Lippardâs 2023 residency at La Becque in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland, the album satirizes, in prim deadpan, the stultifying aesthetics of corporate life, from hold music to online banking. How do I know if my cat likes me? extends the lineage of Roberts Ashley and Barryâs droll concept poetry, hammering at the sounds of language until they dislodge all signifieds through pleasurably numbing repetition. Listening to the record is like doing a Captcha over and over until all the characters fuzz to hieroglyphs, or finding yourself mired in a tautological customer-service argumentâexcept that, after you dead-end at nonsense, you stumble into an unexpectedly transcendent beauty, where language flips from pure function to pure aesthetic, shimmering with possibility. Even subtle ruptures in lyrical or musical patterns can trigger a fundamental shift in the world of the song. Throughout the record, strict formalism and minimalism beget narrative. âThe long goodbyeâ imagines an excruciating dialogue between acquaintances who canât politely disengage: âItâs my pleasure!â deadpans Lippard, who replies to herself, âPleasure is all mine! / See you soon! / See you next time! / See you then!â Though the lines recycle the same few parting words, a mysterious causality accumulates in the minute variations, creating a narrative arc less for the characters of the song than for the listener, who might confront despair, nihilistic humor, or profound gratitude at the capacity of art to encompass any of thisânot necessarily in that order. Elsewhere, as âModern Spankingâ free-associates its way from the phrase âonline bankingâ toward âbreathing down your neck bankingâ and âsexy but bankrupt banking,â a whole world of perfunctory pleasures comes into focus. While minimalist movements in music and visual art foster a certain situatedness of the view, âModern Spankingâ evokes the slick, frictionless minimalism of an upscale mall: a crowd of desultory passersby drifting between sex and money, fantasy and reality, scattered attention and intense distraction. In a world like this, the distinction between banking and spanking becomes negligible.
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1. Timing
2. Unavailable
3. Did You Know?
4. Modern Spanking
5. A Space of Transit
6. The Long Goodbye
7. At Last I Am Free
How do I know if my cat likes me? is the first offering from organists Ellen Arkbro and Hampus Lindwall with visual artist Hanne Lippard, an existential meditation on the empty expanses of our automated everyday. First developed during Arkbro and Lippardâs 2023 residency at La Becque in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland, the album satirizes, in prim deadpan, the stultifying aesthetics of corporate life, from hold music to online banking. How do I know if my cat likes me? extends the lineage of Roberts Ashley and Barryâs droll concept poetry, hammering at the sounds of language until they dislodge all signifieds through pleasurably numbing repetition. Listening to the record is like doing a Captcha over and over until all the characters fuzz to hieroglyphs, or finding yourself mired in a tautological customer-service argumentâexcept that, after you dead-end at nonsense, you stumble into an unexpectedly transcendent beauty, where language flips from pure function to pure aesthetic, shimmering with possibility. Even subtle ruptures in lyrical or musical patterns can trigger a fundamental shift in the world of the song. Throughout the record, strict formalism and minimalism beget narrative. âThe long goodbyeâ imagines an excruciating dialogue between acquaintances who canât politely disengage: âItâs my pleasure!â deadpans Lippard, who replies to herself, âPleasure is all mine! / See you soon! / See you next time! / See you then!â Though the lines recycle the same few parting words, a mysterious causality accumulates in the minute variations, creating a narrative arc less for the characters of the song than for the listener, who might confront despair, nihilistic humor, or profound gratitude at the capacity of art to encompass any of thisânot necessarily in that order. Elsewhere, as âModern Spankingâ free-associates its way from the phrase âonline bankingâ toward âbreathing down your neck bankingâ and âsexy but bankrupt banking,â a whole world of perfunctory pleasures comes into focus. While minimalist movements in music and visual art foster a certain situatedness of the view, âModern Spankingâ evokes the slick, frictionless minimalism of an upscale mall: a crowd of desultory passersby drifting between sex and money, fantasy and reality, scattered attention and intense distraction. In a world like this, the distinction between banking and spanking becomes negligible.
