Phonocratic Records

The new Lost Shadow album Quandaries and Panaceas is released today, and is available for download from iTunes, Amazon MP3 and CDON. If you prefer to be streaming it, you can do so at Deezer. You can find the links you need at the bottom of this post. This is my most political album to date, featuring an aggressive attack on the ignorance towards today’s and tomorrow’s environmental threats shown by governments, companies and many people. Quandaries and Panaceas is angry, thoughtful, beautiful and filled with hope, all at the same time.

There is two versions of the album, a short (about an hour), and a long (almost two hours of music). The concept for writing the songs was to let them expand for as long as I had ideas for them, and then make shorter, more pop friendly versions. In the end I decided to put out the long versions as well, as they have their own qualities, and provide a deeper understanding of the whole album. I highly recommend using Deezer or Spotify and listen to both versions.

During the week, the album is expected to show up at emusic and 7digital, with a Spotify release date in early December. Very soon, physical copies of the album, in CD format, will be available for order. Also, if you buy a download of the complete album, you can e-mail a copy of the receipt to us to obtain free bonus material (such as a digital booklet).

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I’m happy to announce that we today uploaded out album masters for Quandaries and Panaceas to iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Emusic and the other digital music distributors. This means that the album will have a release date of Tuesday the 9th November (with a Spotify release date in early December). Yes, that’s Tuesday next week! I’m very excited and hope to hear your opinion on the album as soon as you get it in your hands! Stay tuned!

As those who have bought the single have already discovered, there is a music video for the song There, which we have today posted on YouTube. The video is rather simple, but is something I wanted to create as it emphasises the song’s meaning. Hope you’ll like it!

The second Lost Shadow single taken from the forthcoming album Quandaries and Panaceas has been released today. The song is called There and is a ballad about not forgetting the good times in life. It has been described as a “chill” song, and I can only agree.

The single features the radio mix of the song, as well as a handsup radio mix by Shane Wittig. As a b-side, a club remix of the song The turning point, also taken from Quandaries and Panaceas is included. In addition, there are remixes by The Argyle Raver and Aragorn featured on the single, which can be downloaded from Bandcamp. To have a listen to the single, use the player below.

My personal feeling is that this song very much complements the previous single (The problem with democracy) in describing the sound of Quandaries and Panaceas, which is aimed for a late October release. I would like to thank the remixers who have done a terrific work on this track!

In our efforts to bring Lost Shadow’s music to your favourite digital music store, we can now report that Lost Shadow albums have been successfully added to iTunes, Amazon, 7digital, CDON and Emusic. On iTunes, three albums are now available, with Juniper and Cinnamon being the most recent addition. The other stores currently list Intuition and Decision and Truth and Consequences, with the third one being on its way (it should arrive during next week). We’re still waiting for Lost Shadow’s music to arrive to Spotify, which should happen in the near future.