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RICHARD THOMAS
Soggy Martyrs
LCD016
Recently referred to in The Guardian as "an electronics fiend whose
collocation (!) of skewed squiggles suggest he could happily be the next
Aphex Twin" there is however a lot more to Richard Thomas as this album
will testify. Double bass, flute, trumpets, guitars and drums - as well as
the aforementioned electronics - weave a highly melodic, accessible and
emotionally charged web of sound that veers from "electronic jazz folk" to
Fall like space rock whilst always remaining undeniably unique. Definitely
not the same old bollocks.
The album will be preceded by the Squarepusher/Thomas EP 'I Am Carnal (and
I Know That You Approve)'. Richard is currently completing remixes for Laub
and Piano Magic and preparing for various live performances.
Press for "I Am Carnal" (a collaboration w/SquarePusher):
"There's quite a few post DJs out there engaged in this sort of crunching
and pulping rhythmical exercises, but it's not always easy to distinguish
between those forging a vital musique concrete for the 21st century and
those who've apparently sat around with a tape machine recording the sounds
emanating from a breaker's yard and to put it on wax. Squarepusher and
Richard Thomas are definitely in the former camp. Here, they take it in
turns to pulverize and reshape each others' tracks. The title track and its
sinister overtones belong to Thomas, Kerb-crawling on a down dirty double
bass and licked with a loopily seductive riff achieved on what sounds like
a homemade sitar, it's further fucked up with a crossfire of noise and
effects, like a neurological impulse sent haywire by the tape looped,
promiscuous ickie girl vocals. Squarepusher then drags the track down into
a clanking dungeon of sonic sleaze on 'Slope' before on the flipside Thomas
scrunches it up even more, only to pass back the resultant misshape on to
Sqaurepusher (and here's where they ruin the effect a little) 'Richard Is
Dick Extended' who liquifies it with an ambient treatment. Fiendishly
brilliant." NME - 30th October 1999
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