Ex-Partner

Lore-Core is out!

Thanks to everyone who has helped with the creation of this thing. The last few years have been batsh*t for me (and the world) so I really appreciate the help I have gotten from friends and family during such a mental period. Special thanks to Damian, Billie, Paul, Josh, Eleanor and Jackson.

Listen and enjoy and please consider buying a tape.

And thanks to everyone who partied with me on Friday, that was a blast!

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press release:
Ex-Partner returns with their debut album Lore-Core, an eight-track blitz of dense, textural landscapes crashing into Tony Drent’s fragile, distinctly Aotearoan voice, a union which frequently degenerates into lush, dream-like scenes resembling a Safdie brothers film soundtrack or a lost microgenre of the Bloghouse era.

Lyrically, the album evokes the late 20th-century doom and malaise of Nico, Leonard Cohen and David Berman. Cursed images of ancestral weddings, enmeshed flesh and tree-shaped birthmarks sit alongside lovesick soldiers and l***y mayors.

Lifting the overarching concept of Lore-Core from theorist Shumon Basar, who explores the existential compulsion to storify one’s own life as consensus media narratives collapse, Ex-Partner has created a soundtrack that embodies the feeling of living, laughing and loving amongst the destruction of everyday reality. In Lore-Core the most intimate moments in our personal lives are as inextricably linked to global politics as they are to the Earth’s weather.

The heavily-chorused guitars, foggy synths and distorted 808 kick drums were fine tuned through Joshua Lynn’s experimental production techniques at Thinkt Studios in Graz, Austria. Lore-Core was refined and reconfigured by Drent and Lynn over a few years while the collaborators each raised their respective newborns.

Notable guests include Ex-Partner’s son Nino, mother Cathy Sheehan, and partner Eleanor Haydn. Non-biological family guests include one third of Grecco Romank, Billie Fee, and frequent Ex-Partner collaborator Jackson Hobbs.

EX-PARTNER T-SHIRT AVAILABLE

$60.00 each.

Double sided and printed on high quality comfort colours ‘Pepper’ (dark grey) t-shirt.

Size guide on link below

Message me your info to [email protected] and I will send you my details.

I really appreciate those who have bought one already!

Tony

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