Musique concrète at its absolute-poppiest. The new Books album , The Way Out, is due out July 10th and will be the band's first album on Temporary Residence. Let's hope it's a return to form for the band.
"Why do you always get away with these things? I'm gonna kill you; so you'll stay alive as long as I want you to, so I can kill you.... Probably by cutting your toes off, and working my way up to your brain."
There will always be a special place in my heart for Kompakt's trademarked Pop Ambient compilations. Known more for European minimal techno/house music, the Pop Ambient series allows a handful of the less prolific artists on the Kompakt roster a chance to showcase their brand of "poppy" ambient music.
I just stumbled across this full length by one of the usual names tapped for the series. Never heard an album by Ulf before, but I'm really enjoying this one... The cover art equally blows and rules at the same time...
I'm not sure why I didn't post links to the new Geographic North material on here sooner. We just released the debut EP by Paul Duncan's new electronic/atmospheric pop project, also known as Warm Ghost. The Claws Overhead EP is almost a completely new direction for Paul, as his previous releases were rooted more in the folk world. The new sound is somewhere between Solid Space, OMD, AFX, and Fennesz. I know those "sounds like" descriptions are either entirely misleading or downright false, but I figured I'd give it a shot.
Paul's new songs are the result of recent collaborations with drone/"sound" artists such as Oren Ambarchi and David Daniell. The Claws Overhead EP is limited to 500-copies on white vinyl, with artwork designed by Geographic North, and includes a download code for the album's songs and exclusive remixes by Ekkehard Ehlers, David Daniell, Ateleia and Oren Ambarchi.
It's taken me several weeks of passing the new Emeralds off to finally give it a serious listen. "Drone" albums that come out of nowhere and somehow top EVERY single current list of online music magazines, record store lists, etc... just don't rub me the right way. It's nothing like "It's popular, so I won't like it" or anything like that.
Anyway, I gave the new one, "Does it Look Like I'm Here?" a listen and absolutely love it. There's some serious channeling of the analog Cluster/Eno collaboration-vibes going on here.
Musique concrète at its absolute-poppiest. The new Books album , The Way Out, is due out July 10th and will be the band's first album on Temporary Residence. Let's hope it's a return to form for the band.
