Longshore Drifting [LP]

Lone Bison - Longshore Drifting [LP]

Lone Bison, aka Nick Bonell, lives by the sea in Ramsgate. Mainly a guitar player and pedal freak, Nick bought a used Korg MS20 and fell in love with synths. As one half of Stuntmen, Nick released the sample-heavy single "You're the Beat Find" on the groovy Tummy Touch label, which led to scoring three Ford adverts in the U.S. and pieces of production music that paid for more synths and pedals.

After recording three albums back-to-back, Nick wanted to change his sound palette, programming his Hydrasynth Explorer in obsessive detail while being drawn to using his voice in a sampling kind of way at first, which shifted into writing proper songs again. As the record progressed, he leaned less on vocoders and harmonizers, developing the courage for more up-front vocal mixes, packing lots of synth textures into concise, three-minute pop songs. Lone Bison's music is influenced by Krautrock, electronica, post-punk, soundtracks, and a splash of modern classical minimalism and post-rock.

Track Listing:

Down in Flames
Rise Up
Chemistry '88
The Power
Overcome With Love
Famous Last Words
Vocal Collage
Hand Me Down
Maths
Be More Pacific
Minimal/Maximal