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01. The Telescopes - Become The Sun
02. The Telescopes - The Speaking Stones
03. The Telescopes - The Desert In Your Heart
04. The Telescopes - Everything Must Be
05. The Telescopes - Silent Water
06. The Telescopes - Dead Inside
07. The Telescopes - The Living Things (Session)
ARTIST
TITLE
Stone Tape
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
CSR 267CD CSR 267CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/27/2019

The tenth album from The Telescopes is full of wall-to-wall psychedelic drones, swaying chants, trance-inducing shoegaze, and "suspended-in-space magnificence" (Julian Cope). Stone Tape is a concept album inspired by "Stone Tape Theory" (or "residual haunting"), theorized by Thomas Charles Lethbridge in 1961. The archaeologist, parapsychologist, and explorer developed the idea that inanimate materials can absorb energy from living beings, and that this mental electrical energy, released during emotional or traumatic events, could somehow be "stored" in such materials and "reproduced" under certain conditions. The hypothesis has been known as "Stone Tape Theory" since the cult 1972 TV screenplay Stone Tape by Nigel Neale. Recorded in Powderhorn Minneapolis, The Vicarage, West Yorkshire, and The Experimental Health Unit. Originally released as a limited-edition LP by Italian publishing house Yard Press in 2017 (YP 001LP), this CD edition contains a bonus 14-minute version of the track "The Living Things", recorded in Switzerland in 2018. Digipak with new artwork by Stephen Lawrie. Mastered by Martin Bowes at The Cage. Layout by Abby Helasdottir.