plaid - monsoon 12 (warp)
so the illusive ones return, after a year tied to bjorks
apron strings with only a clutch of frankly uninspired
remixes for the likes of nicolette, deelite & acacia
to speak for them, ed handley & andy turner re enter
the world of the living with this taster for their (now
fully mastered) debut album for warp.
and as the slogan in one american presidential
campaign went wheres the beef?
anyone seduced by the rhythmical complexity
and inventive playfulness of tracks like scoobs
in columbia & angry dolphin or the breathtaking
emotion of reshi or object orient will be deeply
disappointed by these 3 tracks, the feeling has gone
to be replaced by a multi duplexity of sins, including
polished over production, uninventive rhythms &
cliched strings, its as if all the life has been
squeezed out of the tracks leaving music pleasant
to the ear but with all the depth of a chunk of medium
grade cardboard
to my ears their are distinct signs of a real lack in
confidence, no dashing brush strokes of sound
but rather small careful dot to dots, you can almost
hear the lines that have have been pencilled in and
rubbed out again and again in a frantic effort to present
the finished article, yes folks its just to damn nice
and that is simply not good enough
ken downie must be quietly chuckling over his cocoa
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