Ivan The Tolerable - The Planets (Star Death Vinyl)

Limited 300 only 'star death' marble vinyl LP with printed inner sleeve.

Middlesbrough multi-instrumentalist Oli Heffernan returns under his Ivan The Tolerable moniker with his most conceptually ambitious project to date: a complete, ground-up reimagining of Gustav Holst’s iconic 1918 suite The Planets, completely overhauled for the anxiety and isolation of 2026.

Recorded across three winter months using warmth-decayed reel-to-reel tape, modular synth rigs, warped woodwinds, and cavernous bass drones, The Planets strips away the grand bombast of Holst’s full brass sections and replaces it with a hypnotic blend of heavy kosmische drift, free-jazz saxophones, and claustrophobic ambient textures.

This isn't a cover record, it's an exorcism of space.