ARTIST: THE CYCLIST
TITLE: ALABASTER THRONES
LABEL: 100% SILK
CAT NO: SILK105
FORMAT: 12"
MUSIC GENRE: HOUSE, TECHNO

This EP returns to the kinetic and shredded mode The Cyclist both named and perfected: “tape throb.” Alabaster Thrones collects four recent cuts of Andrew Morrison’s blasted house signature, tracked at his home studio in Birmingham, UK during “the height of mania – a time when I had no time.”

The context translates: the music is churning and charged, careening through twisting tunnels. The title is “a deflation of grandiosity” cribbed from Ulysses (“…a noble race, rulers of the waves, who sit on thrones of alabaster, silent as the deathless gods”), though Morrison’s meaning is more personal: “It’s a reminder to level yourself and think of all those around you.” Reflective forward motion for deflective backwards times.