Kinbote is the alias of Glasgow-based electronic producer Matt Gibb. According to his bio, “Matt first started making music solo on Garageband in 2015 and has progressed with the same bedroom pop ethos ever since (he still uses the same spartan home recording setup revolving around a microphone, a laptop and some broken old keyboards).”
His new album, Hemisphere, builds and expands upon his debut album, Shifting Distance, with more character-focused songs, like his latest, ‘Daily Vlogger,’ that tangles with obsession. He told Lost Map:
“I was on the island of Møn off the coast of Denmark. I recorded a bunch of samples while there, which are placed throughout, and used to make most of the drums and some of the synths. Someone had written the words ‘Daily Vlogger’ in chalk on a fence next to a path above the cliffs, and I decided to write about that. The song is about the obsessed fan of a vlogger, switching between her perspective and the vlogger’s.”
Kinbote will play a launch gig at The Glad Cafe in Glasgow on Sunday, April 14. This special audio-visual live show will feature contributions from different filmmakers and visual artists. Tickets are on sale now.
His new album, ‘Hemisphere’, is released next month on 12th April via Lost Map and is available digitally and on limited edition CD + printed zine.
Order the Limited Edition CD + Printed Zine: https://www.lostmap.com/products/kinbote-hemisphere
Bandcamp: https://lostmap.bandcamp.com/album/hemisphere
Kinbote: https://linktr.ee/kinbote