{"product_id":"belbury-poly-sorcery","title":"Belbury Poly - Sorcery","description":"\u003cp\u003eSorcery is the ninth album for Jim Jupp, aka Belbury Poly. It grew from Jupp’s love of early to mid-80s electronic music and a rediscovery of how that music had soundtracked his childhood love of all things sci-fi and fantasy. It’s moody and melodramatic electronica rendered in bright and evocative 80s sounds. The not quite 80s tunes have Belbury Poly’s trademark earworm melodies and are ever so slightly tongue in cheek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the outset of the project, Jupp assembled a palette of instruments and sounds which evoke a moment in musical history when digital studio technology just started to take over from analogue. Eschewing Belbury Poly’s earlier mid 70s obsessions, to focus on that period around 1983, when artists who could afford it started to experiment with samplers. It was a musical moment dominated by the sounds of Prophet 5, DX7 \u0026amp; PPG synthesizers, Fairlight \u0026amp; Synclavier music computers, TR808 drum machine \u0026amp; Simmons Drums (those ubiquitous hexagonal drum pads) and of course the much-maligned fretless bass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s also an era that’s now seen as something of a golden age for fantasy, sci-fi, comics, book, TV, movies and games (particularly in Britain where it was often fuelled by a post punk reaction to Thatcher’s regime). In Jupp’s memory these things go hand in hand; as a child his nerdy fandom was soundtracked not as it was for most by Heavy Metal, but by the electronic pop of Bill Nelson, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Japan, and Frank Chickens. Also, by otherworldly TV soundtracks \u0026amp; production music of the era: Elizabeth Parker and Paddy Kingsland at the BBC, The Parry Music Library, Rod Argent’s new age library albums and even Clannad’s Robin of Sherwood score.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJupp returns to a simple, not-quite solo line up for this album. A very electronic sound with fretless bass, guitars and e-bow provided by regular Belbury Poly collaborator, \u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Budd.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince 2005 \u003cstrong\u003eJim Jupp\u003c\/strong\u003e has released nine albums as Belbury Poly. Generally, a solo project, he calls on a floating roster of collaborators to extend his sound beyond electronica. Jupp has recorded library tracks for KPM, BMG and Lo-Editions. He’s remixed and recorded with many artists including \u003cstrong\u003ePye Corner Audio\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Foxx, Beautify Junkyards, Moon Wiring Club, Sharron Kraus\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBill Ryder-Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cstrong\u003eThe Coral\u003c\/strong\u003e). He co-wrote a song with \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Weller\u003c\/strong\u003e for his 2020 album \u003cem\u003eOn Sunset\u003c\/em\u003e. He has collaborated extensively with \u003cstrong\u003eJesse Chandler (Midlake, Mercury Rev, Pneumatic Tubes)\u003c\/strong\u003e and with spoken word artist and author \u003cstrong\u003eJustin Hopper.\u003c\/strong\u003e He was also one half of \u003cstrong\u003eThe Belbury Circle\u003c\/strong\u003e with \u003cstrong\u003eCate Brooks\u003c\/strong\u003e (of \u003cstrong\u003eThe Advisory Circle\u003c\/strong\u003e). Jupp manages his own record label Belbury Music and along with renowned graphic designer Julian House, he runs Ghost Box Records. House and Jupp defined a sound world and set of visual ideas in the mid noughties that would later be called Hauntology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased \u003cstrong\u003e25th September 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e on colour vinyl, CD, download and streams. Album artwork is by American fantasy artist Arik Roper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Belbury Music","offers":[{"title":"Orange LP","offer_id":58306006090072,"sku":"TKM-42834","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"6 Panel Digipack CD","offer_id":58306006122840,"sku":"TKM-42835","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4266\/0184\/files\/STA_20260812_1543_144543_977_p_2c96a551-7fc5-b2e4-7189-5cc999243b86_3_001.jpeg?v=1787929775","url":"https:\/\/truckmusic.store\/products\/belbury-poly-sorcery","provider":"Truck","version":"1.0","type":"link"}