{"title":"Xeno \u0026 Oaklander","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our collection of Xeno \u0026amp; Oaklander vinyl records, CDs, box sets, and more at Darkside Records. Shop new and used releases with fresh inventory arriving daily.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"xeno-oaklander-vi-deo","title":"Xeno \u0026 Oaklander- Vi \/ deo (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEast Coast minimal wave institution Xeno \u0026amp; Oaklander's seventh full-length further distills their iconic noir synth pop into a streamlined suite of gleaming, graceful retrofuturism. Inspired by ideas of synesthesia, scent, star worship, and obsolescent technologies, the duo of Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride began conceiving the blueprint of Vi\/deo while sequestered at their Southern Connecticut home studio during the pandemic. The context of isolation, streaming, and remote dreaming seeped into their chemistry, manifesting as both homage to and meditation on a certain cinematic strain of technicolor fantasy: the screen as stage, distance disguised as intimacy, where tragedy and glamor crossfade into one.\n\nOpening with the precision synthetic melancholy of \"Infinite Sadness,\" the album marks a peak fluidity between the pair's fusion of analog electronics and poetic melody, both refined and oblique, classic but contemporary. Wendelbo modeled her singing on \"a young boy in a choir,\" alternately holding notes and whispering them, with the lyrics clear, the voice elevated. McBride's synthesizers serve as the perfect counterpart, tiered and polished, threading fluorescent architectures of a lost audio-visual age. Theirs is a darkwave of reverie and flickering city lights, swooning and sleek, romantic anthems for concrete bohemia, cigarette smoke in rainy gardens, and sound as color (\"blue is fast and red is slow\"). Vi\/deo captures the bittersweet beauty of youth and utopias, the wistful transformation from miracle to memory, where love turns unreal and music becomes myth: \"Sounds of the underground \/ Will echo in future days \/ Feelings of misery \/ Will fade into the haze.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInfinite Sadness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Poison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Afar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Technicolor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Television\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Gain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Movie Star\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Raingarden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dais","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44996831281373,"sku":"011586671720","price":22.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4003186-2738441.jpg?v=1727259220"},{"product_id":"xeno-oaklander-hypnos-indie-exclusive-iex","title":"Xeno \u0026 Oaklander- Hypnos (indie Exclusive) (Indie Exclusive Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEight new songs of sparkling electronics from duo Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride (Martial Canterel) blur the lines between 60's French Pop, 80's wave and contemporary modular synth pop. Romantic and mythic, a dreamlike journey through dense harmonies and complex polyphonic compositions... As a musical act, Xeno \u0026amp; Oaklander conflate a rich love of analog synths, melody, and mythology with eloquent nuance and a nod to the heritage they draw from. While that construct is the duo's immediate kiss and crush, there's a deeper importance to their collaboration which began in 2004. As evidenced in their debut Vigils (2004), McBride and Wendelbo's artistic dynamic is more than just a mutual love for electronics but a contrast between architectural precision and painterly expression. From the film scores to the traditional albums they've recorded in their Brooklyn studio, they've both spurred and fostered the global synth wave revival through a commitment to analog-only production and performance as well as a strident respect for the medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFire and Smoke\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Hypnos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Angélique\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Insomnia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Light the Whisper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Altamira\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A World Without Sun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Athena\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dais","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006240219357,"sku":"638126003256","price":20.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3905481.jpg?v=1727225729"},{"product_id":"xeno-oaklander-par-avion","title":"Xeno \u0026 Oaklander- Par Avion (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eXeno and Oaklander are a minimal electronics girl\/boy duo, and they are based in Brooklyn, NY. They began writing music and soundtracks in 2004. Liz Wendelbo is French \/ Norwegian and Sean McBride is from Maryland. They record their songs live in their Brooklyn studio and play analogue synthesizers and instruments exclusively. Par Avion is their fourth studio album after their previous releases on revered and now defunct New York label Wierd Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lastly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sheen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Par Avion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Jasmine Nights\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Reflections\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Nuage D'ivoire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Providence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e G. Bruno\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly Int'l","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006250213597,"sku":"804297821818","price":18.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/2571640.jpg?v=1727225337"},{"product_id":"xeno-oaklander-via-negativa-in-the-doorway-light","title":"Xeno \u0026 Oaklander- Via Negativa (in the Doorway Light) (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe eighth and latest slate of refined retro-futuristic synth-pop by Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride aka Xeno \u0026amp; Oaklander is named after and inspired by \"the study of what not to do, a negative image of a positive, the other side, the other:\" 'Via Negativa (in the doorway light)'. Recorded in the fall of 2023 at their modernist Connecticut home fashioned into a two-story synthesizer laboratory and mixing studio, the album is uniquely visionary in spirit yet precision in execution, a contrast central to the duo's enduring chemistry. Embryonic piano sketches were translated to nuanced modular systems, which McBride weighted with \"harmonic padding,\" tuned percussion, and a spectral transfer device capable of \"rendering spasms of rhythmic overtonal filigree.\" Despite the technological complexity of their craft, emotively the songs require no deciphering - these are technicolor widescreen anthems of the cybernetic age.\n\nThe eponymous opening track sets the pace, soaring sleekly over glittering synths and call-and-response vocals about arias, shattered light, and faces in stereo. From there the record expands and contracts, cycling through a gallery of moods and masks, animated by the band's fascination with drama, \"the idea of personae,\" and theatrical characters. Track by track, a murky, tragic backstory reveals itself: forlorn figures navigating a treacherous mercury mine, alternately poisoned by fumes or buried in collapsing caverns. The tension between Teutonic, utopian synthetic pop and lyrical narratives of ghosts in silos, ruined mills, and the traumas of mineral excavation creates a compelling friction, alternately futurist and obsolete, elevated and subterranean. Wendelbo describes the music's polarities perfectly: \"The heavy machinic din of extraction in contrast with the enchantment of the mined precious gems and metals.\"\n\nFrom bilingual odes to bloodstones (\"O Vermillion\") to cosmic chrome dance floor classics (\"Lost \u0026amp; There\" \"The present tense can never feel real \/ So many pasts conspire in the burning sun\") to strutting EBM sensualities (\"Actor's Foil\"), Xeno \u0026amp; Oaklander re-prove themselves masters of the axis of technology and poetry, snaking cables and synesthesia, mining melodies and myths across 15 years of focused artistry. Theirs is a muse still gilded and gleaming, burnished red and silver, attuned to \"the unobservable, the unfamiliar, that which you don't see directly.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVia Negativa (in the doorway light)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mercury Mind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Unknown Side\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lost ; There\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Actor's Foil\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Magic of the Manifold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e O Vermillion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Strange Fellows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45700152623325,"sku":"683950558021","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4373421-3264065.jpg?v=1731452818"},{"product_id":"xeno-oaklander-via-negativa-in-the-doorway-light-1","title":"Xeno \u0026 Oaklander- Via Negativa (in the Doorway Light) (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe eighth and latest slate of refined retro-futuristic synth-pop by Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride aka Xeno \u0026amp; Oaklander is named after and inspired by \"the study of what not to do, a negative image of a positive, the other side, the other:\" 'Via Negativa (in the doorway light)'. Recorded in the fall of 2023 at their modernist Connecticut home fashioned into a two-story synthesizer laboratory and mixing studio, the album is uniquely visionary in spirit yet precision in execution, a contrast central to the duo's enduring chemistry. Embryonic piano sketches were translated to nuanced modular systems, which McBride weighted with \"harmonic padding,\" tuned percussion, and a spectral transfer device capable of \"rendering spasms of rhythmic overtonal filigree.\" Despite the technological complexity of their craft, emotively the songs require no deciphering - these are technicolor widescreen anthems of the cybernetic age.\n\nThe eponymous opening track sets the pace, soaring sleekly over glittering synths and call-and-response vocals about arias, shattered light, and faces in stereo. From there the record expands and contracts, cycling through a gallery of moods and masks, animated by the band's fascination with drama, \"the idea of personae,\" and theatrical characters. Track by track, a murky, tragic backstory reveals itself: forlorn figures navigating a treacherous mercury mine, alternately poisoned by fumes or buried in collapsing caverns. The tension between Teutonic, utopian synthetic pop and lyrical narratives of ghosts in silos, ruined mills, and the traumas of mineral excavation creates a compelling friction, alternately futurist and obsolete, elevated and subterranean. Wendelbo describes the music's polarities perfectly: \"The heavy machinic din of extraction in contrast with the enchantment of the mined precious gems and metals.\"\n\nFrom bilingual odes to bloodstones (\"O Vermillion\") to cosmic chrome dance floor classics (\"Lost \u0026amp; There\" \"The present tense can never feel real \/ So many pasts conspire in the burning sun\") to strutting EBM sensualities (\"Actor's Foil\"), Xeno \u0026amp; Oaklander re-prove themselves masters of the axis of technology and poetry, snaking cables and synesthesia, mining melodies and myths across 15 years of focused artistry. Theirs is a muse still gilded and gleaming, burnished red and silver, attuned to \"the unobservable, the unfamiliar, that which you don't see directly.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVia Negativa (in the doorway light)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mercury Mind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Unknown Side\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lost ; There\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Actor's Foil\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Magic of the Manifold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e O Vermillion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Strange Fellows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45700171628765,"sku":"683950558007","price":22.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4373419-3264064.jpg?v=1731453398"},{"product_id":"xeno-oaklander-via-negativa-in-the-doorway-light-2","title":"Xeno \u0026 Oaklander- Via Negativa (in the Doorway Light) (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe eighth and latest slate of refined retro-futuristic synth-pop by Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride aka Xeno \u0026amp; Oaklander is named after and inspired by \"the study of what not to do, a negative image of a positive, the other side, the other:\" 'Via Negativa (in the doorway light)'. Recorded in the fall of 2023 at their modernist Connecticut home fashioned into a two-story synthesizer laboratory and mixing studio, the album is uniquely visionary in spirit yet precision in execution, a contrast central to the duo's enduring chemistry. Embryonic piano sketches were translated to nuanced modular systems, which McBride weighted with \"harmonic padding,\" tuned percussion, and a spectral transfer device capable of \"rendering spasms of rhythmic overtonal filigree.\" Despite the technological complexity of their craft, emotively the songs require no deciphering - these are technicolor widescreen anthems of the cybernetic age.\r\n\r\nThe eponymous opening track sets the pace, soaring sleekly over glittering synths and call-and-response vocals about arias, shattered light, and faces in stereo. From there the record expands and contracts, cycling through a gallery of moods and masks, animated by the band's fascination with drama, \"the idea of personae,\" and theatrical characters. Track by track, a murky, tragic backstory reveals itself: forlorn figures navigating a treacherous mercury mine, alternately poisoned by fumes or buried in collapsing caverns. The tension between Teutonic, utopian synthetic pop and lyrical narratives of ghosts in silos, ruined mills, and the traumas of mineral excavation creates a compelling friction, alternately futurist and obsolete, elevated and subterranean. Wendelbo describes the music's polarities perfectly: \"The heavy machinic din of extraction in contrast with the enchantment of the mined precious gems and metals.\"\r\n\r\nFrom bilingual odes to bloodstones (\"O Vermillion\") to cosmic chrome dance floor classics (\"Lost \u0026amp; There\" \"The present tense can never feel real \/ So many pasts conspire in the burning sun\") to strutting EBM sensualities (\"Actor's Foil\"), Xeno \u0026amp; Oaklander re-prove themselves masters of the axis of technology and poetry, snaking cables and synesthesia, mining melodies and myths across 15 years of focused artistry. 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Romantic and mythic, a dreamlike journey through dense harmonies and complex polyphonic compositions... As a musical act, Xeno \u0026amp; Oaklander conflate a rich love of analog synths, melody, and mythology with eloquent nuance and a nod to the heritage they draw from. While that construct is the duo's immediate kiss and crush, there's a deeper importance to their collaboration which began in 2004. As evidenced in their debut Vigils (2004), McBride and Wendelbo's artistic dynamic is more than just a mutual love for electronics but a contrast between architectural precision and painterly expression. From the film scores to the traditional albums they've recorded in their Brooklyn studio, they've both spurred and fostered the global synth wave revival through a commitment to analog-only production and performance as well as a strident respect for the medium.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFire and Smoke\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHypnos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAngélique\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInsomnia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Light, the Whisper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAltamira\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA World Without Sun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAthena\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 638126003249\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Dais\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46974149525725,"sku":"638126003249","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3905480.jpg?v=1762832396"},{"product_id":"xeno-oaklander-par-avion-1","title":"Xeno \u0026 Oaklander- Par Avion (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eXeno and Oaklander are a minimal electronics girl\/boy duo, and they are based in Brooklyn, NY. 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