Not that Students Of Decay is technically underrated, I mean they’ve got over 100 releases in 10 years and were just featured as Label Of The Month in Resident Advisor, but I still feel like Alex Cobb’s label generally hasn’t gotten enough love. But maybe that’s changing, some of the last few releases have been super successful, so perhaps SoD will be the next Important. Either way, this label is the fucking best. Here’s some of my favorite records they’ve put out, in roughly chronological order, starting way back in 2006.
AGB Radio 2015/03/30 – Label Spotlight: Students Of Decay
Background music: Skeletons Out – In Remembrance Of Me (from In Remembrance Of Me)
00:00:00 Talk break
00:00:59 Taiga Remains – Ribbons Of Dust Part 2 (from Ribbons Of Dust)
00:10:40 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – The First Time I Saw Your Face I Thought It Was A Dying Star (from Shining Skull Breath)
00:17:32 Cloaks – Improvisation For Guitar And Piano (from Serene)
00:22:33 Natural Snow Buildings – Salt Signs (from The Snowbringer Cult)
00:30:42 Talk break
00:32:11 Caboladies – Limestone Nightlife (from Earth Canal)
00:36:19 Aquarelle – The Blue Light Was My Baby (from Sung In Broken Symmetry)
00:43:41 Bryter Layter – First Light (from Two Lenses)
00:49:38 En – Marble Steppe (from Already Gone)
00:55:50 Marielle V. Jakobsons – Shale Hollows (from Glass Canyon)
01:00:47 Talk break
01:01:54 Alex Cobb – Bewildered By Its Blue (from Passage To Morning)
01:10:51 Ekin Fil – Father (from Ekin Fil)
01:15:55 Secret Pyramid – Move Through Night (from Movements Of Night)
01:23:28 Anne Guthrie – Unlike More Slender And Graceful (from Codiaeum Variegatum)
01:28:39 Talk break
01:29:32 Maxwell August Croy & Sean McCann – Column Of Mirror (from I)
01:34:11 Kyle Bobby Dunn – Confessions Of The Mildly Miserable (from …And The Infinite Sadness)
01:39:11 Duane Pitre & Cory Allen – The Healer (excerpt) (from The Seeker & The Healer)
01:51:05 Sarah Davachi – Ruislip (from Barons Court)
01:58:32 Talk break
Hi Justin,
Thanks for the spotlight on this amazing label.
I’m totally in love with Secret Pyramid’s work (purchased the double-LP, both “The Silent March” and “Movements of Night” are astonishing pieces of work).
I’m just a bit disappointed you didn’t choose the opening track “Outside” of “The Silent March”, which is one of the most brilliant and thrilling tracks I’ve heard recently. But “Move Through Night” is definitely more than a decent one ;)