''From Here We Go Sublime'' is the debut studio album by Swedish

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producer Axel Willner under his alias The Field, released by

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on 26 March 2007.

Production

''From Here We Go Sublime'' consists primarily of tracks recorded by Willner as the Field between 2004 and 2006, though the album also includes tracks produced before this period, one of which was originally recorded under a different alias. Willner's production style is

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-based, employing cut-up and resequenced manipulations of snippets of other artists' music, including

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's "Under Ice" on "Over the Ice", Lionel Richie's "

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" on "A Paw in My Face", Fleetwood Mac's " Everywhere" on "Everyday", and

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' "

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" on "From Here We Go Sublime".

Style and themes

Despite ''From Here We Go Sublime'' being released on the

label, known primarily for

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, the album's sound has been described as "less techno than it is

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". Jess Harvell of ''

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'' also noted the style's similarity due to an "anthemic bigness to Willner's little sounds, a certain shameless bombastic quality to the way he deploys his loops and builds his arpeggio" and the "elementary drum tracks, often just a deflated machine thump flecked with hi-hat hiss". The themes of the music on ''From Here We Go Sublime'' has been noted for its "unabashed emotionalism" with songs suggesting "bliss", "melancholy" and "loss". ''From Here We Go Sublimes song titles have been described as vague, and the songs themselves having no intelligible lyrics beyond sampled vocals which have been edited and chopped up. Willner dislikes lyrical content and chose to treat sampled vocals as instruments rather than as voices, as "it gives (the music) a special feeling."

Release and reception

''From Here We Go Sublime'' was released on

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and

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. The album was released to great critical acclaim from various publications, and, along with Burial's '' Untrue'', was the best-received album of 2007 on the music critic aggregators site

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. It was named the 29th best album of the decade by '' Resident Advisor''. Willner was surprised by the positive reception to the album, stating that "since it is a bit different than (most) other techno, I thought that people wouldn't like it."

Track listing

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2007 debut albums The Field (musician) albums Kompakt albums