Edition 1 (LP)

King Midas Sound is comprised of Kevin Martin (also known for his work under The Bug moniker), singer/poet Roger Robinson, and vocalist Kiki Hitomi. Their landmark 2009 debut Waiting For You on Hyperdub quickly established them as falling sonically, somewhere between sub-electronic lovers rock, dub and the bleakest, slowest mutation of narco hip hop, while on the live front they were nestled somewhere between the apocalypse and fx drenched, shoegaze laments.

Looking even further back it does seems fitting that the person (Kevin Martin) who once curated a compilation called Isolationism is one of the key contributors behind this truly mesmeric examination of melancholy and desolation, Editions 1 features collaborator number one, Austrian guitarist / electronic musician Fennesz. Utilizing improvised guitar tracks, samples, and unreleased material from Fennesz's archive, Editions 1 took shape with within the KMS framework.
Editions 1 is a tide coming in. A fog reaching out into nothing, and encapsulating everything. An ultimate parting note drifting into absolute loneliness, swept up in a sumptuously blurred, dronal haze. Hallucinatory tone poems of heartbreak, despair and displacement. Seductively spatial sketches of long goodbyes. Music to cling to or to be used to move past. Sounds set adrift on their own tonal plain and reigned back in by Roger & Kiki's complimentary, yet extremely different deliveries.

Editions 2 through 4 to follow. With collaborators kept under wraps. Each one to be a genre stretching and boundary pushing surprise. Packaged with a geometic and abstract conceptual continuity.