Bookworms - Xenophobe
How to use the reserve function
If you'd like to purchase items from our site but want to save money on shipping costs, you can use our reserve function to combine your orders over an unlimited period of time, and ship them together for one combined shipping price when you are ready.
Just hit the 'reserve' button at the checkout page as your shipping option when you've finished making your order, and your order will automatically be held in reserve here until you are ready for us to ship everything to you.You can keep as many orders in reserve with us via our site as you like, until you are ready to ship. Just send us an email when you are ready to ship your reserve orders, and we will get in touch with the combined shipping price, or ship for free if you have exceeded the minimum order amount for free shipping to your address.
Can the reserve function be used to get free shipping? Yes - If your combined order total is more than £50 within the UK, over £150 within the EU, or over £225 worldwide, we'll ship your order to you via courier service, for free.
Here's a step by step guide to using it:
1. Click on the account icon to log into your account.
If you don't have an account, please click 'create account' to make one. If you had an account on the old RWDFWD site, please create a new one with the same email address used on the old site - this will ensure your previous orders are brought through to your new account.
2. Add records to your cart as normal.
3. When you're ready to check out, select 'ship'.
4. Then select 'Reserve items' on the shipping method list, then continue to payment.
5. Once payment is complete, your order will show in your account as 'unfulfilled'. We will have put all the products aside in reserve for you to combine with other orders and ship later in bulk.
6. When you're ready to ship all the items you have in reserve, email us on info@rwdfwd.com and we will calculate the shipping due and arrange for payment to be taken.
7. Sit tight and wait for your records to arrive in the post!
Free Shipping?
We offer free shipping on orders over a certain value
UK orders over £50
EU orders over £150
Worldwide over £225
This is automatically applied at checkout and reserve orders also count towards it.
EU Order info
Unfortunately, the UK is no longer part of the EU - This means that certain shipments sent to addresses there from us may be subject to tax and / or import duty - All orders sent from RWDWD are sent ‘DDU’ - That is, duty unpaid - any import tax and/or duty is the sole responsibility of the buyer.
If you would like to use our reserve function to group several orders into one large shipment, we can arrange for it to be sent tax and duty pre-paid so you don’t have to worry about it at a later date - Contact us for more information.
You may know Bookworms from his exemplary track record on the almighty LIES imprint, starting back in 2012 with that whitelabel. More recently he dropped the 'Touchless Automatic' EP, also for LIES which sonically paved the way for 'Xenophobe'.
7 tracks split across two plates housed in some great artwork are the order of the day here - nothing but quality from start to finish. Opening with that signature Bookworms blend of woozy, looping techno that presses all the right buttons for us - 'U More' and 'U Say So' make up the A side, the former barely tipping the 110bpm mark - it's casual, trippy techno music you could spend hours immersed in. Flip the disc for one of the real highlights 'STE-027' which gets a side all to itself - clocking in just shy of 20 minutes this gem floats in on a wave of softly hissing pads and fizzing hats, gradually teasing the kickdrums in, Dawson plays the long game - treating the listener to a cinematic trip through Kodachrome tinted film - sunkissed arpeggios float in and out of the mix with a total disregard for conventional structure - they bleed through bars, tail off in the wrong place - subtle tricks that keep you firmly focussed on, what after a few listens reveals itself to only be a very select few elements. No easy task but one that is pulled off here with considerable ease.
Things take a turn to the darkside for the on the second plate - 'Illusion Flip' thumps out some weighty kick drums over a fizzing wash of atmospherics and melancholy synths, before stripping things right back to the delicate yet claustrophobic styles of 'In Character'.
The murky aquatics of the aptly titled 'Showering' open the final side, running percolating arp sequences through waves of murky atmospherics - the ever present thump of a kickdrum anchors the listener like a pair of concrete boots, caught in the undertow, forced to take in the evolving textures swirling past.
A real trip this one, deftly pulling off the difficult 'dance music album', a cohesive collection of tracks, each with more than enough power to rock a dance and with enough subtlety to warrant home listening sessions - if you dig that woozy techno gear, we reckon you'll be hard pushed to find a better long player this year.
STE-027
Illusion Flip
You Say So
Showering