Experimental electronics inspired by T.S. Eliot poem The Hollow Men compiled in deluxe 4xLP

With tracks by Lanark Artefax, Pan Daijing, Hodge and more.

Houndstooth is releasing a collection of music called In Death Dream’s Kingdom – a sonic ode to a T.S. Eliot poem – on quadruple vinyl this December.

Musicians were given the following brief by label Houndstooth: “to take the phrase “in death’s dream kingdom”, or the whole of TS Eliot’s poem The Hollow Men from which it comes, as inspiration.”

The Hollow Men closes with one of Eliot’s most well known passages: “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.”

Though inspired by the same source, In Death Dream’s Kingdom 25-tracks span from the melancholy to the transcendental.

This is In Death Dream’s Kingdom’s first physical offering, following a digital release in January, and includes an additional track by Christoph de Babalon.

Limited to 500 copies, it features hand-drawn illustrations by Rotterdam-based artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen.

Pre-order a copy here ahead of its 7th December release, listen to Lanark Artefax’s’ ‘Styx’ and check out the track list below.

Tracklist

1. Otto Lindholm – Cain
2. Pan Daijing – The Island Within
3. Lanark Artefax – Styx
4. Petit Singe – Komm Wieder Mit
5. Peder Mannerfelt – Post Sense Perspective
6. Tomoko Sauvage – In Some Brighter Sphere
7. Pye Corner Audio – Box In A Box
8. Sophia Loizou – Shadows Of Futurity
9. Abul Mogard – Trembling With Tenderness
10. Pär Grindvik – Speaking Their Minds
11. Koenraad Ecker – Rat’s Coat
12. Roly Porter – Without Form
13. Hodge – Sunlight On A Broken Column
14. Gazelle Twin – The Dream Ends
15. Shapednoise – Ghostly Metafiction
16. ASC – Tessellate
17. Batu – Zoo Hypothesis
18. We Will Fail – Carbon Trail
19. Peter Van Hoesen – 98 Lines
20. Spatial – Haunted Dance Hall
21. Yves De Mey – Solemn But Fading
22. Mindspan – Accept Things As They Are
23. Kangding Ray – Glacier
24. ZOV ZOV – Post Six
25. Ian William Craig – An End Of Rooms
26. Christoph De Babalon – Broken Land