Kleistwahr - Down But Defiant Yet / Acceptance is Not Respect 2LP

In August 2020, following some typical delays at the plant, Fourth Dimension Records released the limited edition 2LP (and now sold out) set of Kleistwahr's "This World Is Not My Home" and "Over Your Heads Forever" albums, originally released by the same label in 2014 and 2016 respectively. Packaged together in a single sleeve with printed inners reproducing all the artwork found on the original CDs, the 2LP was always designed to represent the first volume in a series of them.

This next volume gathers everything on the next two albums, "Down But Defiant Yet" and "Acceptance is Not Respect", both also initially released on CD in, respectively, 2017 and 2018, and presented in the exact same way. The long sold-out at source album, "Down But Defiant Yet", collects four lengthy cuts which catch Gary Mundy (also known for Ramleh, Breathless and Broken Flag Records) furrowing his distinct and recognisable take on a kinda contemporary psychedelia with dystopian leanings. Each piece nods towards the fug generated by certain ‘krautrock’ groups whilst retaining threads of those uncompromising power-noise surges he built his reputation on, this is music guaranteed to take you to new spaces before forcing you to nervously look over your shoulder.

2018's "Acceptance is Not Respect" collects two lengthy pieces themselves broken down into seven parts often tempered to the point restraint assumes new, often disturbed (and disturbing) psychedelic or even filmic, properties, this music arrives like a spitting and foaming scream into the insanity of the void and the myriad challenges and questions it inexorably keeps hurling at us.

Tracklist:

- DOWN BUT DEFIANT YET -

1. Broken and Beaten in 5/8 Time Part 1. Beaten
2. What's It All For?
3. Broken and Beaten in 5/8 Time Part 2. Broken
4. Mass Exodus (A Hymn)
5. The Revolution of Defiance
6. St. Stephen
7. St. Andrew
8. St. Margaret

About this product: this release is pressed on 2x black vinyl.