Up

Up artwork

Up is an album by LorD and Master. The album was written between January and May 2017 and was produced using Apple's Logic Pro X software. Release date: 8 September 2017.

Concept

Up's concept was simple: to make a pure synthpop album using new vocal effects and synths, with particular nods to vocoders and extreme auto-tuning techniques. Each of the songs has a two-word title, so in a way, the album is a spiritual successor to Univerbose. The songs form a sort-of narrative that details falling in love, but that love is ruined by jealousy and mistrust. Most of the songs are devoid of sampled instruments, using pure software synthesis instead; the final track being the exception, as it employs sampled orchestral strings. This is to ease the listener back to other, more sample-heavy albums.

In terms of visual art, Peter Nugent decided that the best way to represent the music's synthier feel was to use a pixel-art format. The album artwork features LorD and Master holding onto a red balloon, floating through a videogame-esque landscape that is reminiscent of Terraria. The LorD and Master character is also holding, in his other hand, the plague doctor mask that he wore for a number of years in pictures and artworks. The artwork for the EP packages reflected the themes of the songs' titles and retained the pixel-art theme.

Tracklisting

1. "Electronically yours" - 3.23
2. "One night" - 3.53
3. "All night" - 4.05
4. "Do it" - 3.33
5. "Good night" - 3.38
6. "Modern age" - 4.17
7. "My jealousy" - 3.57
8. "Needing you" - 3.41
9. "Be yourself" - 4.49
10. "Nothing matters" - 3.53
11. "Star dust" - 4.11
12. "Autumn twilight" - 3.57

Total running time: 47 minutes, 12 seconds.

Personnel

• Daniel Bailey-Graham: Daniel Bailey-Graham: Writing on all tracks, lead vocals, backing vocals, keyboards and piano, electronics, synthesisers, programming, vocoder, sequencing, mixing, mastering, art design.
• Peter Nugent: Design direction, art design.

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