The KLF Announce New Book 2023: A Trilogy

Earlier this year, confrontational electronic pop project and performance art duo The KLF—Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty—officially announced their return. A cryptic poster on a wall on a London street promised new work on August 23, 2017. Now, the KLF have announced a new book. It‘s titled 2023: A Trilogy, and it arrives August 23 via publisher Faber & Faber. The publisher nor the band have given any real explanation of what the book is about, with Faber’s site offering this:

Down through the epochs and out across the continents, generation upon generation of the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu have told variants of the same story – an end of days story, a final chapter story. But with one hope, even if the hope at times seems forlorn.

The story contained in this trilogy is the latest telling. Here it is presented as a utopian costume drama, set in the near future, written in the recent past. 

Read with care.

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The mysterious poster that the duo used to announce their return earlier this year included the phrase, “the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu have no interest in anything that seeks to comment on, bounce off, glorify, debunk or resurrect their historical work.” 

Over the course of their career in the late 80s and early 90s, Drummond and Cauty released several groundbreaking albums, including 1990′s Chill Out, which landed at #5 on Pitchfork’s list of the 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time. Along with scoring a handful of hits, they were equally known for their elaborate and often shocking publicity stunts, perhaps most famously burning a million British pounds on video and shooting blanks out of machine guns at the audience at the 1992 BRIT Awards. 

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