Washed in flickering 8mm film light, Alpine Decline appeared in 2010 in East LA spinning up their machines and spinning out a web made of quarter inch tape. The duo crash echoed vivid vocal melodies with pulse pumping guitars and drums, all within a cloud of cinematic atmosphere. In less than a year they recorded three full length albums and then promptly vanished, spirited to China and vanishing along the disintegrating edge of east Beijing.

After one year, Alpine Decline return with their fourth album, "Night of the Long Knives". Descending from the high altitude visions of their previous records, the duo walks us gassed out and head numb through chaos and time sickness, deep into the ruins of ancient alleyways and naked skyscrapers.

This time under the expansive sonics of producer Yang Haisong, "Night of the Long Knives" is Alpine Decline surfacing from the Beijing haze at the height of their powers, crafting songs with the ghost-memory quality of myths and guiding a twelve song trip deep into the cinematic and stereoscopic landscape of their world, real and apocryphal.

"Night of the Long Knives" is available on vinyl and online. Visit www.alpinedecline.com to stream the first three albums: "Alpine Decline", "Visualizations", and "消失／Disappearance".

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在搬到中国并且隐居在北京东部的边缘地带一年之后，Alpine Decline带着他们的第四张专辑“长刀之夜”回来了。从他们之前的唱片的高纬度视野突袭而下，这对二人组带领着我们以陶醉和头脑麻木的姿态穿过混乱和时间的伤痛，进入旧日街道与裸露的摩天大楼的废墟中。

这一次，在制作人杨海崧扩张的音浪之下，“长刀之夜”是Alpine Decline尽其所能对于北京雾气的平面化，用神话中隐秘的记忆特质打造的歌曲，并且引领着一次12首歌的旅行，深入到他们的世界中那些或真实或虚幻的影像和声音的图景之中。

现在可以买“长刀之夜”黑胶或电子。在www.alpinedecline.com上可以找到他们之前的三张专辑："Alpine Decline", "Visualizations", 以及 "消失／Disappearance"。Alpine Decline继续他们在北京的无所事事，以及2012和2013年穿越亚洲，欧洲和美国的巡演。