{"product_id":"strands-796441820528","title":"Strands","description":"2016 release from the electronic musician and former member of Emeralds. \"Strands is a song cycle that is about cosmogony and creation\/destruction myths. The title alludes to the structural constitution of ropes as I wanted to approach the compositions so that they consisted of strands and fibers which form a unified whole. This was so the songs could have the appearance of being either taut or slack without being fundamentally locked to a grid. So the sounds\/tones have a certain malleability to them and sound like they're bending through time. It's also grittier and more distorted than my previous albums. I wanted to try and capture that moment in nature and society where life slowly reemerges through desolation, so it has a layer of optimism looming underneath. The music represents this by seemingly decaying at times but then reforms and morphs in a fluid way back to it's original state. I was also inspired by the movement of rivers, particularly their transformative aspect and how they're in a state of flux and change, in particular the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland where I live, which notoriously caught on fire thirteen times because of industrial pollution in the 1960s and before. I was very interested in the dichotomy of oil and water and the resulting, unnatural symptoms of human industry. It's a very personal record for me as it is a reflection of my hometown where I grew up and where it was mostly recorded.\"-Steve Hauschildt.","brand":"Kranky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50445219004499,"sku":"1749874X","price":13.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/3460132_5ea017ed-fb91-4aac-ae3a-e89bfdb56e31.jpg?v=1790355134","url":"https:\/\/www.deepdiscount.com\/products\/strands-796441820528","provider":"Deep Discount","version":"1.0","type":"link"}