With Postcard. Limited to 500 copies. Catalog Number: ERATP173LE Color: Clear Format: LP UPC: 3700551786183 The Doomsday Clock currently sits at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the big hand and the little hand have come to signalling our total destruction since the conceptual chronograph was incepted back in 1947. If we're dancing on the brink then we might as well make sure that the music is great. Step forward Daniel Brandt, of lauded German electroacoustic outfit Brandt Brauer Frick, who leads the apocalyptic rave with his third solo album Without Us. "The idea for this project began with a small but unsettling experience in South London," he remembers. "I was looking to buy a single avocado, but every store I went into only seemed to offer them in plastic wrapping, packed in pairs with a little cardboard base. I remember thinking: 'but the avocado already comes in its own perfect packaging? And I only want one.' It struck me as absurd that, despite our awareness of the damage plastic causes, unnecessary packaging like this still persists." The scenario turned into a farrago - Brandt went from store to store discovering the same nightmare in every shop where every avocado was wrapped in superfluous packaging: "As a touring musician, maybe I have to admit my own carbon footprint is questionable," he admits, "but it's countries and corporations that need to quit with the half measures that avail the planet nothing, usually under pressure from powerful, short-termist lobbying groups." He continues: "Without Us is about the helplessness of the individual in the climate crisis and the apparent need to take radical global action to change the trajectory of the current threat of a climate disaster. It's about the despair and inability to be able to properly contribute to change as an individual, even though the general idea is that everybody can play their part. But this part that each individual is supposed to take responsibility for is so small compared to the scale of what is needed. The responsibility must not be with the individual when we're suffering from decisions by global corporations aiming to get rich quick."