A profoundly shallow half hour of park noises

Posted by Garth Paulson in Radio Silence
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I'm a firm believer in the age old maxim that I totally didn't just think of on my walk home from work: Jarvis Cocker can make anything interesting.

Adding further credence to this maxim, the longtime Pulp front man, current solo artist, Michael Jackson interrupter and stop motion animated, banjo wielding yokel has recently compiled a half hour worth of pleasant background noises recorded by Britain's National Trust. The album was cobbled together from "British natural sounds including birdsong, crashing waves and wind breezing through a country garden" (from the National Trust's site) and sounds like you'd expect something like that to sound. Normally, such a project would drop without so much as a glance from the online hipster rags, but Cocker's involvement has caused the document of a tidy afternoon in sunny, English park to get picked up by Pitchfork and Drowned in Sound, among others.

You can download National Trust: The Album here, and remember Jarvis Cocker is involved, so it's quite possible that the whole thing is secretly a joke about sleeping with your wife and your snooty, upper class ways.

[Note: In case anyone mistakes the title of this post as a dig at the album or the National Trust, please watch this video.]


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