Album Stream: SAVE! – Monsters And Fairies

Bold new venture from Marc Nguyen Tan...

Marc Nguyen Tan is perhaps best known through his Colder moniker, releasing two influential albums on the Output Recordings imprint.

Taking time out, he then went to Spain and played jazz in the mountains, before forming a creative agency in Paris.

Gradually, production loomed back into the horizon of his imagination, releasing the long-awaited third Colder record last year.

Then Craig Louis Higgins Jr. crossed his path. A gifted writer and performer, his eerie spoken word had already spearheaded cuts from Paranoid London.

The two immediately hit it off. Working as Save! the duo matched acidic dance music against murky, submerged words, heavily cerebral yet instantly infectious.

Creating an entire world, their cinematic recordings have that Lynchian manner of crafting a dream-like landscape that is both familiar and intangible.

New album 'Monsters And Fairies' will be released on May 27th, but you can check it out below. Oh, and there's also a track by track guide from Marc Nguyen Tan…

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Monsters
Inadvertently breaking three important rules concerning a new pet and unleashing a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.

Feels So Good
His care-free youth and weekend dancing help him to temporarily forget the reality of his life: a dead-end job, clashes with his unsupportive and squabbling parents, racial tensions in the local community, and his associations with a gang of macho friends.

Don’t Be Mad
Two children shipwrecked on a tropical island with no adults to guide them, forced to make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.

Rainy Monday
Like running away from indestructible goons on serious crime sprees that have been brought back from the dead with the resurrection machine and being forced to join them once they catch you.

Easy Walk & Talk
A young con man passing on his corrupted knowledge to kids in your neighbourhood until being forced to unite with law-abiding citizens to save their home from eminent domain.

The Tick
Arrives on a Greyhound bus in New York City desperate to leave his boring Midwestern past behind. He decides to throw the most controversial and over-the-top parties in the city. In just a few years erratic behavior threaten to destroy the empire he's created.

The Darkness In The Middle
A street sweeper who brings home a corpse for him and his wife’s pleasure, only to have her fall in love with it and ultimately lose her forever.

The Light
The destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, and the last major fighter carrier leading a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for planet Earth.

What Are You Looking At
A lonely and depressed young man of 26 years. His origins and hometown are unknown. He works 12 or 14 hour shifts during the evening and night time hours. Sometimes during his breaks, he goes to a local all-night diner to have something to eat.

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'Monsters And Fairies' will be released on May 27th. Oh, and while we have you…

Colder will return this year – new albums 'Goodbye' and 'The Rain' will be released on June 24th.

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