Tomorrow's World by Neil Scrivin

Written and recorded in 2007, ‘Tomorrow’s World’ is a trip in time to the future of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. More Sinclair C5 than Lamborghini, it takes its primary inspiration from the science and computer TV programming of that era, reflecting a period in which breath-taking advances in technology were viewed with equal parts utopian optimism and nuclear-fuelled fear.

Whatever happened to tomorrow’s world?

This newly remastered edition is released in physical format for the first time, featuring brand new cover artwork, on cassette tape (available in two colour choices - black or transparent blue) with extended inlay art panels housed in a clear case.

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"All ten tracks are just flawlessly executed, sounding indistinguishable from the real thing ... There’s clearly some amount of irony in certain places - the synth bursts atop a bouncy bass line on ‘Travelling Hopefully’ somehow seem laugh out loud when picturing the British Rail training video they easily could have scored - but swathes are earnestly composed synth jams ... Towards the second half of the album, tunes like ‘Tomorrow's Babies’ and ‘Outer Space’ get a bit stranger with swift whooshing edits and effects shooting the cheesy drum machines and synths into dubbier space. Joyous escapism back to a time when futurism was often still blissfully ignorant." Tristan Bath - The Quietus

"Neil Scrivin turns in a timeless reissue of his decade-old album Tomorrow's World, an almost lost to time artefact that sounds like a DX7 jam session between Pekka Airaksinen and DMX Krew!!!!

Travelling back in time on his Sinclair C5 and with a Rubix cube dancefloor by his side, Neil Scrivin's Tomorrow's World is a cheekily produced slice of retromania that due to its high-end production techniques and glossy sheen stands way above any sort of pastiche, and taken on its own context bears the sort of astral electro that could easily crop up on the Ghost Box imprint, if they looked the skies instead of public info and VHS library horror films for influence.

Having been turning the music around in the back of our minds since the tapes landed, what's striking is that Tomorrow's World could still be a viewpoint into a time we have still yet to arrive at, or even a message beamed from the 80s that is finally being received, at this point it's hard to say... but most likely it's just a killer electronica album. One that if you have been lost in the fuzzy electronica snowstorm of Neil's Twenty Years On Ben Nevis or have a strong yearning for The Lost Tapes Record Club, BOC or B12's recent sci-fi star-glaze sounds then this is the one, a radiophonic disco catapult set to shoot all that listen into the future-past." Bleep.com

Tracklist

1.	Lifestyle	4:03

2.	Less of an Art, More of a Science	3:48

3.	Travelling Hopefully	4:18

4.	Natural Power	5:10

5.	Inner Space	3:46

6.	Telecommunications	4:23

7.	Tomorrow's Babies	4:02

8.	Outer Space	4:47

9.	Leisure Is a Serious Business	4:34

10.	Whatever Happened to. . .?	3:49

Credits

released June 9, 2017

Written, produced and performed by Neil Scrivin.
Recorded 2007.
Remastered 2017.

Artwork by Neil Scrivin.

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