Environments 3 is the third in The Future Sound of London

The Future Sound of London

The Future Sound of London is a prolific British electronic music band composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. The duo are often credited with pushing the boundaries of electronic music experimentation and of pioneering a new era of dance music...

's "Environments" series of albums, released on 7 June 2010. Unlike previous FSOLDigital releases, the album was not made available as a download several months before the CD release. Because of this, the record was heard several weeks in advance due to early shipping from the website Juno. The record sleeve announced a fourth album in the series.

The album

Continuing from the previous volumes in the series, Environments 3 begins in a neoclassical, ambient vein, but instead of the epic sound of Environments 2, takes the music in a darker, more insular direction, reflecting the sounds of the band's 1996 album Dead Cities

Dead Cities

-History:The Dead Cities are a group of 700 abandoned settlements in northwest Syria between Aleppo and Hama. They date back to before the fifth century CE and contain many remains of Christian Byzantine architecture...

, from which elements of some tracks are derived. However, the album remains somber and ambient for the most part.

Track listing

1. Viewed From An Obscure Angle (3:10)
2. Summer's Dream (4:16)
3. Sunken Ships (3:40)
4. The Empty Land (5:40)
5. A Glitch In Cellular Memory (3:21)
6. Recollection (3:22)
7. Accompaniment For Melodious Expression (3:05)
8. Absolution (3:39)
9. The Oldest Lady (1:19)
10. A Diversionary Tactic (3:07)
11. The Silent Place (2:52)
12. Out Of Sync Child (2:00)
13. Hall Of Mirrors (1:34)
14. End Of The World (4:35)
15. Sense Of Being (1:50)
16. Surface Water (3:42)
17. Heart Sick Chord (8:10)
18. Repetition Is A Form Of Change (1:45)

Crew

• Producer - Future Sound Of London, The
• Written - By Brian Dougans, Garry Cobain
• 1, 9, 14 written - By Brian Dougans, Garry Cobain, Daniel Pemberton
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