Mini-LP style CD Digi-pak (all card, no plastic), with lyric booklet. Cover designed with Jonathan Barnbrook + Barnbrook Studio. Pastoralis a really exceptional album. Not just one of the best of the year so far but of the entire decade TQ has been operational for.THE QUIETUSits the job of an artist to capture something of the tenor of the age they live in, andPastoralfits the bill: a mad jig along a cliff edge.PITCHFORK Pastoralis a bizarre album in the most positive way, and its amalgamation of traditional musical concepts within this futuristic pop structure is what makes it so enticing.POP MATTERS Its a radical operatic essay on political nausea... an astonishing piece of workELECTRONIC SOUND MAGAZINE Pastoral presents a grotesque portrait of Englishness in the 21st century . . . people are the scariest monsters of all.THE WIRE What species is this? What century? Forged in a rural idyll in Middle-England, the new album Pastoral, by Gazelle Twin, exhumes Englands rotten past, and shines a torch over its ever-darkening present. Told through a troupe of multi-gender voices, in vernaculars old and new; from the shrill echo of folksong to tabloid-tinged jaunts, the artist aka Elizabeth Bernholz, presents the notion that there is horror in every idyll, and danger lurking beyond the quaint .The village square - once host to centuries of public torture - becomes a floral framed postcard, dolled-up for the Summer Fte. A sunny, afternoon walk over the hills unsettles a cloud of angry flies feeding from unidentifiable remains. Bigoted vitriol gently murmurs amidst tearoom chatter, as the neatly framed pastoral picture dissolves into a solemn ennui.Four years in the making, amidst life-changing events, including a move far out of the city, Pastoral will be the first major release by the artist since her widely acclaimed LP UNFLESH (2014, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) and is seamlessly on-theme, together with Bernholzs J.G. Ballard-inspired A/V show Kingdom Come (soundtrack released November 2017, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) - a fascism-infused hellscape, this time set in deepest Old England.As its sole creator, Gazelle Twin The Composer, Musician and Producer has crafted an album overflowing with a frenzy of traditional and contemporary musical tropes; from early music instrumentation - the harpsichord and the humble recorder, fed through myriad electronics - to the compelling, ritualistic application of found sample-looping. Beyond Bernholzs signature choral-infusions, here reverberating like a warped Sunday Service, there are even shades of 90s house and the once-thriving rural rave scene, albeit recalled as a watery, second-hand memory.In its consummation it is an album that feels pan-century, even pan-species. Set against a verdant backdrop of hedgerows and steeples, Gazelle Twin The Artist and Performer, constructs an eccentric and commanding visual embodiment of all-of-the-above - a costume fit for a court Jester of the 21st Century.The colours of Neo-Nationalism. Coke cans, and DANGER. It (not she) hints at folkloric traditions with a footy mascot twist. The Ye Olde and The Everyman of the English clich. Brandishing a sneer and a hobby horse. A riddle and a recorder. A jeer and a square dance in red, Adidas Gazelles, and a mad, fixed GRIN - first glimpsed in the single, Hobby Horse (22 June, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray). A deranged, absurd reflection of deranged and absurd times