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Vicarious Life

by Le Cliché

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €7.99 EUR  or more

     

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    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Note: I'm taking this down until after the holidays at the beginning of September. I'll make the record available to purchase again when I get back home. Happy holidays!

    This is the vinyl LP version of the album.

    It is released on the Polytechnic Youth label (where it is sold out) London and is limited to 500 copies.
    We have a small number of copies for sale.

    The record is black vinyl, 33rpm, with an insert on card, which includes images of vinyl artwork by Le Cliche on one side and an essay on Vicarious Consumption on the other side, written by Le Cliché and edited by Danny Bosten of Das Ding. There's a track with This is the Bridge, and vocals samples courtesy of some of the late70's/early 80's electronic/minimal synth cassette culture scene.

    The album is not on Spotify or any other digital platform (except for a couple of tracks on Soundcloud).

    Includes unlimited streaming of Vicarious Life via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • The Vicarious Consumption Collection
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    The Vicarious Consumption Collection
    Limited to 10.
    More photos available on le cliché instagram and facebook.

    To live vicariously is to experience the world in our minds through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experiences of another person. As our daily lives become more and more interwoven with the Internet, and especially with social media, our identity construction and portrayal, as well as our interaction with others is increasingly taking place online.

    This trend became even more obvious during the COVID19 pandemic when we spent long periods of time stuck at home, cut off from direct contact with others.

    Faced with the impossibility of doing the things we were so used to pre-pandemic, many of us began to seek out ways of experiencing the world vicariously, through the experiences of others.

    Lockdowns · social distancing · stay at home · exercise alone · buy online · work from home!

    The Covid19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns set in place the ideal conditions for vicarious consumption to flourish.

    Unbox with me
    Watch me eat
    Watch me react
    Watch me watch tv
    Watch me playing video games
    Livestream me sleep
    Let’s go on a hike. You and me

    The Vicarious Consumption edition of the Vicarious Life album draws inspiration from the visual imagery, the objects and artefacts associated with the pandemic.
    Face masks, liquid sanitizers, plastic gloves, nose swabs, virus testing kits and their instruction manuals, vaccines, syringes.

    The album covers are designed to be displayed as if they were present in a museum or art gallery, years after the end of the pandemic, as a memento and reminder of the everyday material culture of the pandemic.

    Each record comes with a printout of the powerpoint notes that would be handed out at a talk on 'vicarious consumer behaviour during the pandemic'. The presentation would focus on how, during the lockdowns, consumers turned to vicarious consumption more than ever before, in order to indirectly experience everyday activities through others.

    The collection is presented in 3 formats: vinyl LP, cassette and 7-inch vinyl single.
    It is limited to 10 sets, each with a vinyl LP pack, a vinyl single pack and a cassette pack.
    No further editions or copies will be made.

    The contents of each are as follows.


    ··········Contents of the Cassette Pack··········

    transparent plastic envelope
    face mask with ‘le cliché’ print
    covid test tile
    ‘le cliché’ branded vaccine or hand sanitizer bottle
    syringe
    card box with contains the cassette
    bio hazard bag
    cassette with the album vicarious life
    nose swab
    one ‘le cliché’ instant photo
    printout of powerpoint slides


    ··········Contents of the Vinyl Single Pack··········

    45 rpm, milky white transparent vinyl single
    positive SsIde - vicarious life
    negative Side - production line

    print-out of powerpoint slides
    white face mask with ‘le cliché’ branded print
    nose swab
    covid test tile
    ‘le cliché’ instant photo


    ··········Contents of the Vinyl LP Pack··········


    The Vicarious Life vinyl LP by Le Cliché with new artwork
    There are 10 separate designs. Each one is a unique piece.

    Each album includes:

    Vinyl LP - with positive (side A) and negative (side B) sides.
    white gatefold sleeve or black reconditioned LP box
    wooden or metallic picture frame
    individual design with pandemic artefacts
    gallery label

    card insert (1) from original edition of the LP with essay on unboxing as a form of vicarious consumption
    powerpoint presentation print-out
    card insert (2) of ‘polaroid’ photos of the different LP cover designs of this edition
    card insert (3) with track listing and covid test kit artwork
    card insert (4) vicarious consumption on YouTube
    original ‘le cliché’ instant photo

    Each set also contains a copy of the original edition of the album on the Polytechnic Youth label.

    Tracked shipping.
    As shipping cost will vary depending on your location, I'll gladly return any difference if the shipping ends up being cheaper than stated.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Vicarious Life via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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The album is released on the UK's Polytechnic Youth record label.

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released February 14, 2022

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Le Cliché Barcelona, Spain

Le Cliché's debut vinyl LP is now on sale from Medical Records.

The music might be described as minimal synth, synth pop, postmodernist, cold assembly line with neo consumerist themes, based on the use of synth sequences and virtual voices. ... more

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