{"product_id":"glok-dissident-vinyl-lp","title":"GLOK - Dissident - world exclusive splatter Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRIDE’s Andy Bell heads further into the electronic underground with GLOK, folding acid house, krautrock, ambient drift and shoegaze atmosphere into something hypnotic and distinctly his own. Motorik rhythms, glowing synths and slow-burn psychedelia make this ideal territory for fans of leftfield electronics, late-night headphones and records that get better the deeper you go.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAndy Bell is a founding member, guitarist and songwriter of shoegaze pioneers RIDE, whose landmark records \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNowhere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGoing Blank Again\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e helped define the sound of early-’90s British guitar music. He later spent a decade playing bass with Oasis, followed by Beady Eye, before returning to RIDE and developing his own solo work. Under the name GLOK, Bell explores the more electronic side of his musical world, drawing on krautrock, acid house, ambient and psychedelia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe name GLOK is a misspelling of the German word for Bell. The German connection fits well as there is a strong Krautrock influence in the music, especially on the title track, ‘Dissident’, an epic clocking in just shy of the 20-minute mark, which blends synthwave\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e, minimalism, trance, Detroit techno and John Carpenter soundtracks, with Andy even dropping in some killer John Squire-esque guitar licks. It’s a real journey, but rather than driving down Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, this is one for a spaced-out night time joyride down the M40 that connects Andy’s home city of Oxford to the capital, a journey evoked in the grid of time-lapsed car light tracers of the cover art (by Graeme Swinton).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe previously unreleased ‘Kolokol’ is named after the Russian for Bell and was the original artist name for the project, until Andy discovered it was also the word for a chemical poison used in assassinations. However, there is nothing dark about this blissed-out slice of Balearic gorgeousness, the perfect soundtrack for the sunset at Café Del Mar. ‘Pulsing’ is the heart of the album, a widescreen ambient techno wonder that Weatherall and Fearless would be proud to put their name to, with dissonant atmospherics and an acid throb.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe next three tracks demonstrate Andy’s versatility, nodding more to his day job as his sublime guitar playing comes to the fore. ‘Weaver’ is like a Ghost Box remix of the Beatles’ Strawberry Fields Forever; the propulsive ‘Projected Sounds’ has echoes of Neu! and Can in its buzzing guitar and hammered piano melody, while the soaring acoustic bliss of ‘Cloud Cover’ could be a RIDE track shorn of the band’s Byrdsian vocal harmonies. Closer ‘Exit Through the Skylight’, another previously unreleased track, is Skee Mask on the happy pills.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-d40df2dd-7fff-86d7-2c5b-c3beaec047b3\"\u003eBLACK SPLATTER 180GM \/ INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED OBI STRIP.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eRELEASE DATE OF VINYL: 26 february, 2027.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eONLY ON IMPRESSED.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Impressed Recordings x GLOK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53213139042622,"sku":"IMP272","price":74.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8676\/5630\/files\/Screenshot2026-10-02at2.50.22pm.png?v=1790916746","url":"https:\/\/impressedrecordings.com\/products\/glok-dissident-vinyl-lp","provider":"Impressed Recordings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}