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28 Apr 2002 17:02:42 -0500
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[idm] Boomkat.com - Album of the Week
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From Boomkat.com (the online branch of Manchester's elite Pelicanneck record store) -- http://www.boomkat.com/front.cfm <<<<<<<<< ALBUM OF THE WEEK! STRING THEORY Anhedonia Consumers Research And Development Label LP 9.99 Having made their debut appearance on one of Skam's infamous Smak 12", String Theory arrive with their brilliant debut album. The Consumers label, based jointly in the Californian and Ilinois musical hotbeds, have really gone and done it with this one. Amongst all the amazing music issuing forth, torrent like from the States at the moment - Dabrye, Hefty, Geoff White, Joseph Cotton, Sutekh...we'd have this sitting on top in the big canoe labelled ABSLOUTE CLASS, effortlessly rafting the white water. Josh Davison and Nathan Tucker with the opening, emotion laden chords of Multi just take away the breath. The sounds are laden with immense feeling, imagine Casino versus Japan jamming with Boards, the Bola man at the console, and perhaps we're still nowhere near describing how crucially brilliant this is. The scuttling beats of The Peel eschews the glitch and instead we have a big sky of sound, opening above our heads, and of course the strings, oh yes the strings. We Are Blowing Up should prove a highly apt track title, its slightly detuned keys again carrying that supremely warm childsplay melody, the beats are exubarent fresh, rolling with the assurance of the gifted. Onto Side Two, That Girl Is Blue Shifting just charms relentlessly, a chirpy rhythm which is the kind of house but not house tempo Safety Scissors might conjure, but without the cut up, again the melody line is king here. Hum it on the bus, sing it to the streets, just great popular music, without the parp. Dregs closes a truly wicked album, seams of purest sound and compassionate warmth, and the anticipation...then the change up, a rhythm of which Akufen would be proud, yet more electronic, more generous with the bass than Marc Leclair and still those heavenly synths. We suggest you support the Consumers in all their future Research and Development projects, for this is an unmissable record from a hugely exciting new perspective. Faultless.
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