Faultline - Your Love Means Everything

August 24, 2004

(New York, NY) - The sophomore album from Faultline (aka U.K. electronic artist David Kosten and guests), Your Love Means Everything, is released today in the U.S. by Capitol Records with three new songs and a remix.

The album, which was originally released two years ago, fell prey to label politics and simple bad luck and unjustly disappeared from view. But, awash in spectral electronic melancholy and epic beauty, the lost classic did not escape a chorus of high praise:

"Exquisitely moving" - Mojo

"Devastating" - The Sunday Times

"A must-hear record...12 songs of heart-shattering sadness" - NME

But two years later much has changed. Faultline have a new U.S. label, Capitol Records. And two of the guests on the album have since become major international stars. Coldplay's Chris Martin hadn't even begun recording A Rush of Blood to the Head when he sang on two haunting Faultline tracks: "Where is My Boy?" and "Your Love Means Everything Part 2."

And The Flaming Lips were just outgrowing their cult status when they collaborated on the epic "The Colossal Gray Sunshine," which Rolling Stone called "a masterpiece of widescreen psychedelic soft rock." A video for this track is in production and will be released shortly.

R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe collaborated on a cover of "Greenfields," a bit of dark Americana from late-50s folk revivalists The Brothers Four.

The re-issue of Your Live Means Everything also includes three new songs and a remix not on the original. "We Came from Lego Blocks" is an fractured, downbeat lullaby featuring vocals from Vordul Megilah of east coast underground hip-hop duo Cannibal Ox. Cult singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur collaborates on a truly eerie cover of the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses." The rubbery, cosmic "Biting Tongues" features Ras B, a ragga-styled MC from Adrian Sherwood's On U-Sound crew. And "The Colossal Gray Sunshine" appears again as a remix closing the record.

Other album tracks like "Your Love Means Everything," "Theme for Half Speed"
and "I Only Know Myself" reveal the many degrees of Kosten's ghostly, sublime and orchestral sound.

London-based art school dropout Kosten spent the better part of the nineties in a room with a four-track recorder, teaching himself recording and production technique as well and exploring far-flung combinations of sound. The result was debut album Closer, Colder, the heady, critically acclaimed introduction to his beautifully unsettling sound.

Released three years later, Your Love Means Everything was an instant testament to the fruits of Kosten's ongoing sonic experimentation, as well as his skill at creating an extraordinary environment in which inspiration can strike his many collaborators. It's an album ripe for rediscovery and one whose allure has only intensified in the years since its original release.

FAULTLINE, YOUR LOVE MEANS EVERYTHING
1. Your Love Means Everything
2. Where is My Boy? (vocals by Chris Martin)
3. We Came from Lego Blocks (vocals by Vordul Megilah)
4. Theme for Half Speed
5. Wild Horses (vocals by Joseph Arthur)
6. Sweet Iris
7. Biting Tongues (vocals by Ras B)
8. Clocks
9. The Colossal Gray Sunshine (vocals by The Flaming Lips)
10. I Only Know Myself
11. Greenfields (vocals by Michael Stipe)
12. Lost Broadcast
13. Your Love Means Everything Part 2 (vocals by Chris Martin)
14. The Colossal Gray Sunshine (remix)

Added:  Saturday, September 03, 2005
Reviewer:  Ian Betley
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