Sadly, the Future Is No Longer What It Was: Part One - When We Parted My Heart Wanted to Die

by Leyland Kirby

Sadly, the Future Is No Longer What It Was: Part One - When We Parted My Heart Wanted to Die cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 September 2009
  • Label: History Always Favours the Winners
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 3:54:10
  • Community rating: 3.69/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The first installment in a sprawling, highly ambitious three-part series by the mastermind behind The Caretaker. Utilizing severely processed piano loops, archaic synthesizers, and massive washes of tape delay, Kirby constructs an overwhelming atmosphere of grief and ghostly nostalgia. The project serves as a deeply pessimistic rumination on memory and the inevitable decay of grand human narratives.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, nostalgia, ambient, droning, minimal, bleak

Tracklist

  1. When we parted my heart wanted to die (Friedrichshain memory) (15:00)
  2. The sound of music vanishing (11:09)
  3. The beauty of the impending tragedy of my existence (07:30)
  4. And as I sat beside you I felt the great sadness that day (12:46)
  5. Tonight is the last night of the World (09:25)
  6. To the place between the twilight and the dawn (20:15)
  7. When did our dreams and futures drift so far apart (09:47)
  8. Not even nostalgia is as good as it used to be (09:35)
  9. Sadly, the future is no longer what it was (20:21)
  10. Stay light, there is a rainbow a coming (12:11)
  11. And nothing comes between the sadness and the scream (06:54)
  12. I've hummed this tune to all the girls i've known (12:42)
  13. Not as she is now but as she appears in my dreams (06:55)
  14. Memories live longer than dreams (08:34)
  15. Don't sleep I am not what I seem, i'm a very quiet storm (13:14)
  16. A longing to be absorbed for a while into a different and beautiful World (13:17)
  17. Days in the wildnerness (04:14)
  18. Stralauer Peninsular (16:53)
  19. We all won that day, Sunshine (12:42)
  20. And at dawn armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory (stripped) (10:46)

Credits

  • Dover Trench - primary artist
  • David Chaney - bass, backing vocals
  • Matt Pimple - drums, backing vocals
  • David Hembree - guitar, backing vocals
  • Tom Bianchino - guitar, backing vocals
  • Elijah Freeman - vocals

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