1LP with Japanese Obi Limited Edition Release Date: 16/10/2026 Label: Warp Records
1LP Edition Release Date: 16/10/2026 Label: Warp Records
Japanese CD Edition with Bonus Track Release Date: 16/10/2026 Label: Warp Records
Description
Bibio (Stephen Wilkinson) and Dorian Concept (Oliver Johnson) present their debut collaborative album Answers. Having first met in 2009, the two artists have built a creative relationship over more than fifteen years, connecting through shows, shared interests, and an ongoing exchange of music and ideas. Answers sees this dialogue develop into a fully collaborative body of work, rooted in the idea of looking back as a means to move forward. Created remotely between Vienna, Wolverhampton and rural Wales, the pair exchanged compositions, video clips and ideas via email, WhatsApp and a shared folder, with each responding to what the other had sent and allowing the music to develop through an instinctive process of listening, altering, and answering. Their collaboration was prompted by Wilkinson seeing Johnson’s 2022 video for “Let It All Go”, which led him to reach out to Johnson about working together on an audio-visual project, before Bibio later featured on guitar on Dorian Concept’s 2025 release Miniatures.
This process extends across the album’s visual world, with five accompanying videos created by Wilkinson and Johnson. Working with analogue and early digital video cameras, VHS-C, MiniDV technology, VJ equipment, video mixers and circuit-bent analogue video gear, the pair embraced the glitches, imperfections and unexpected artefacts produced by ageing technologies. Footage captured across their surroundings became material to be manipulated and layered, with natural landscapes and everyday moments transformed through analogue and digital processes.
“Lichen Trip” takes its name from the track’s triplet rhythm, with cyclical folk guitar punctuated by a Roland SH-101 synth processed through a 2000s Eventide Orville, creating an intermeshing of organic harmonies and bending sonic trails. Bringing together guitar, piano, and synth melodies with field recordings, tape loops, and processed textures, the track reflects the curiosity, experimentation, and creative freedom that shaped Answers. Answers is out on Warp Records on October 16th, 2026, available now to pre-order on black vinyl in a printed inner sleeve and 3mm spine sleeve with a 6pp concertina booklet, and on CD in a 4-panel digipak with a 6pp concertina booklet.
1 Womb Glow
2 Lichen Trip
3 Shame
4 Pigeon Harp
5 Hammock Portal
6 Jelly Pencil
7 Pearl Net
8 Pins & Needles
9 Sugar Rain
10 The Unknown
11 Star Bird
12 Stratocumulus
13 Pomegranate
1 Womb Glow
2 Lichen Trip
3 Shame
4 Pigeon Harp
5 Hammock Portal
6 Jelly Pencil
7 Pearl Net
8 Pins & Needles
9 Sugar Rain
10 The Unknown
11 Star Bird
12 Stratocumulus
13 Pomegranate
01. Womb Glow
02. Lichen Trip
03. Shame
04. Pigeon Harp
05. Hammock Portal
06. Jelly Pencil
07. Towers *Bonus Track for Japan
08. Pearl Net
09. Pins & Needles
10. Sugar Rain
11. The Unknown
12. Star Bird
13. Stratocumulus
14. Pomegranate
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