Post by lildevil92 on Oct 2, 2007 21:32:46 GMT -5
“Not a Number” opens the album with a metallic vibraphone rhythm and intermittent fuzz tone crackles before introducing an extraordinary weeping violin melody, evoking the chamber collages of the Books. “Hailin’ from the Edge” with its subterranean bass line, clipped beat and cut glass vocals wouldn’t be out of place among the Teutonic hip-hip of 13 and God.
The off-kilter, urban shoegaze vibe is carried through on “Useless Information” and “Limelight”. “Holdon” the second of four tracks featuring the vocals of Raz Ohara, sounds like what Timbaland/Timberlake aspire to, but comes across as generic and awkward amongst its more impressionistic surroundings. “Fractales Pt. 1 and 2” sound alternately simple and complex, depending on where in the layered mix you allow your focus to rest.
“Birds” comes to life with cochlea-itching twitters and tweets, like a string quartet in a rainforest. “Arcadia” sounds like a richer, happier, more produced left-over from Thom Yorke’s Eraser. The fuzzed-out bliss of Ulrich Schnauss and M83 comes to the fore on “You Don’t Know Me” and “Headup”.
The indolent ooze of “Over and Over” is just gorgeous, the kind of song you want playing in the background as your heart fills to bursting with indeterminate feeling. Finally, “Like Porcelain” is as
fragile and ornate as its title would suggest before fading into four minutes of silence which in turn is cracked open into a static filled space punctuated by ultra-low frequency pulses.
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Track Listing:
1. Not a Number
2 .Hailin From the Edge (feat. Raz Ohara)
3 .Useless Information
4. Limelight
5. Holdon (feat. Raz Ohara)
6. Fractales Pt.1
7. Fractales Pt.2
8. Birds (feat. Apparat)
9. Arcadia (feat. Apparat)
10. You Don’t Know Me
11. Headup (feat. Raz Ohara)
12. Over and Over (feat. Raz Ohara)
13. Like Porcelain
The off-kilter, urban shoegaze vibe is carried through on “Useless Information” and “Limelight”. “Holdon” the second of four tracks featuring the vocals of Raz Ohara, sounds like what Timbaland/Timberlake aspire to, but comes across as generic and awkward amongst its more impressionistic surroundings. “Fractales Pt. 1 and 2” sound alternately simple and complex, depending on where in the layered mix you allow your focus to rest.
“Birds” comes to life with cochlea-itching twitters and tweets, like a string quartet in a rainforest. “Arcadia” sounds like a richer, happier, more produced left-over from Thom Yorke’s Eraser. The fuzzed-out bliss of Ulrich Schnauss and M83 comes to the fore on “You Don’t Know Me” and “Headup”.
The indolent ooze of “Over and Over” is just gorgeous, the kind of song you want playing in the background as your heart fills to bursting with indeterminate feeling. Finally, “Like Porcelain” is as
fragile and ornate as its title would suggest before fading into four minutes of silence which in turn is cracked open into a static filled space punctuated by ultra-low frequency pulses.
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Track Listing:
1. Not a Number
2 .Hailin From the Edge (feat. Raz Ohara)
3 .Useless Information
4. Limelight
5. Holdon (feat. Raz Ohara)
6. Fractales Pt.1
7. Fractales Pt.2
8. Birds (feat. Apparat)
9. Arcadia (feat. Apparat)
10. You Don’t Know Me
11. Headup (feat. Raz Ohara)
12. Over and Over (feat. Raz Ohara)
13. Like Porcelain