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Paper Dollhouse - The Sky Looks Different Here (2018)

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Paper Dollhouse - The Sky Looks Different Here (2018)

Paper Dollhouse - The Sky Looks Different Here (2018)
Electronic, Ambient, Folk, Indie, Psychedelic | 38:12 min | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 204 MB
Label: MoonDome Records

Paper Dollhouse unveils a freshly rendered, new ambient pop sound on The Sky Looks Different Here. Produced by a longtime associate of the project Asher Levitas (of Planet Mu & Old Apparatus fame) and featuring a unique radioactive landscape sleeve design by Finders Keepers Andy Votel. The Sky Looks Different Here offers a map to travel through the vivid nuclear nightside world from the city to the countryside, a journey of which Paper Dollhouse's music is the soundtrack.

Setting the scene with the slowly building chord progression of 'AYVT', Astrud's vocals fall down onto Asher's emotive pads like the raindrops that fell silently outside the studio window during the albums recording sessions. This perfectly sets the scene for the journey ahead, one that traverses the fringes of the album's key influence, the post-apocalyptic 1970's opus 'Z for Zachariah' whilst taking in all manner of slow-motion dub, expansive synth-pop and time slip rave. Imagine Twin Peaks or Malá Morská Víla rescored for a W.G. Sebald book, The Sky Looks Different Here is a searching record, perfectly frozen in time, into the frost blue vinyl on which its story has been cut.

Following on from 2012's debut recordings A Box Painted Black (released via Jane Weaver's Bird imprint), a split album with Magpahi for Folklore Tapes and 2015's Aeonflower (released via Night School in conjunction with Bird) The Sky Looks Different Here is a bold move forward for the group. With the trio have crafted an album that acts as a spidery electronica soundtrack to an imagined Radio On style journey Eastward, from the Lynchian streets of Astrud's current base of North East London to Nina's countryside dwellings within the deepest realms of Suffolk.

Tracklist:
01. Paper Dollhouse - AYVT
02. Paper Dollhouse - Green Pool
03. Paper Dollhouse - 4 Moons
04. Paper Dollhouse - Haze
05. Paper Dollhouse - Mountain Energie
06. Paper Dollhouse - Pearl's Theme
07. Paper Dollhouse - Nuclear Alignment
08. Paper Dollhouse - Dream Fields
09. Paper Dollhouse - Adventure
10. Paper Dollhouse - Lullaby
11. Paper Dollhouse - Nothing Sacred
12. Paper Dollhouse - Meteor Storm

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Track: 01. Paper Dollhouse - AYVT

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Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.013894e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.467350e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.077826e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 1.412233e+004 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.189100e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 8.887018e-002
First order smothness: 4.339207e-001
Second order smothness: 7.224670e-001

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

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Track: 04. Paper Dollhouse - Haze

Processing file: [04. Paper Dollhouse - Haze.aucdtect]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.038636e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.746338e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.054486e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 1.638758e+004 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.120200e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 2.540170e-002
First order smothness: 5.820499e-001
Second order smothness: 6.266596e-001

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Track: 03. Paper Dollhouse - 4 Moons

Processing file: [03. Paper Dollhouse - 4 Moons.aucdtect]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.088963e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.724724e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.141622e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 1.216630e+004 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.189100e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 1.375697e-001
First order smothness: 5.110099e-001
Second order smothness: 5.808656e-001

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

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Track: 02. Paper Dollhouse - Green Pool

Processing file: [02. Paper Dollhouse - Green Pool.aucdtect]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.037311e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.396395e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.172925e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 5.325146e+003 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.189100e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 1.463222e-001
First order smothness: 4.061800e-001
Second order smothness: 6.009852e-001

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

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Track: 05. Paper Dollhouse - Mountain Energie

Processing file: [05. Paper Dollhouse - Mountain Energie.aucdtect]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.083246e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.605570e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.191850e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 1.449200e+004 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.189100e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 4.276876e-001
First order smothness: 3.951820e-001
Second order smothness: 6.724757e-001

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

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Track: 06. Paper Dollhouse - Pearl's Theme

Processing file: [06. Paper Dollhouse - Pearl's Theme.aucdtect]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 1.972879e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.181551e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.169835e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 6.301367e+003 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.160600e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 1.133648e+000
First order smothness: 3.020937e-001
Second order smothness: 6.704885e-001

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

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Track: 07. Paper Dollhouse - Nuclear Alignment

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Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 1.913422e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.464398e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 1.991020e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 9.973920e+003 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.189100e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 1.695253e-002
First order smothness: 4.760148e-001
Second order smothness: 6.078018e-001

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This track looks like MPEG with probability 95%

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Track: 08. Paper Dollhouse - Dream Fields

Processing file: [08. Paper Dollhouse - Dream Fields.aucdtect]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.094112e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.537410e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.189084e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 1.864966e+004 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.189100e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 4.668062e-001
First order smothness: 4.627426e-001
Second order smothness: 7.307451e-001

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

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Track: 09. Paper Dollhouse - Adventure

Processing file: [09. Paper Dollhouse - Adventure.aucdtect]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.098417e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.651267e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.180163e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 1.781524e+004 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.189600e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 4.240205e-001
First order smothness: 4.074703e-001
Second order smothness: 8.098472e-001

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

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Track: 10. Paper Dollhouse - Lullaby

Processing file: [10. Paper Dollhouse - Lullaby.aucdtect]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.071658e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.619694e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.090256e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 1.432956e+004 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.189100e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 3.191254e-002
First order smothness: 5.107958e-001
Second order smothness: 5.052437e-001

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

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Track: 11. Paper Dollhouse - Nothing Sacred

Processing file: [11. Paper Dollhouse - Nothing Sacred.aucdtect]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.119125e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.822254e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.190369e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 1.472652e+004 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.189100e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 5.093390e-002
First order smothness: 5.775298e-001
Second order smothness: 6.302424e-001

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

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Track: 12. Paper Dollhouse - Meteor Storm

Processing file: [12. Paper Dollhouse - Meteor Storm.aucdtect]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.105939e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.630382e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.177391e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 1.845112e+004 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.189100e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 5.331829e-002
First order smothness: 5.384103e-001
Second order smothness: 7.670388e-001

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

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