I just thought I might offer whatever belated props I can to inkblot's "the
language game" on tomlab, since I don't remember having seen anyone mention
it and it's such a pretty thing. I've had this one for a while now, and it's
just been burrowing into a certain mood of mine. Sonically it goes over like
a cross between m?m and phonem with some laid-back dub overlays, though the
phonem similarity is probably tri repetae influence (but has anyone noticed
that most of the records that get labeled as Autechresque don't really sound
all that much like Autechre-- they just sound like other things that sound
like Autechre, or like whatever genres have sprung fully-fleshed from Booth
and Brown's anointed heads?). At any rate, I'll grant that this is by no
means a revolutionary record, just a very, very nice one, with nice, nice,
deferred-nostalgic melodies. And I do mean nice. You get the feeling that he
(jeremy ballard) is the sort of person who would say he's sorry if he
brushed your sleeve or who waits quietly on sidewalks for tourists to take
pictures so he doesn't ruin their shot. It's mostly music for sitting in
dusty, windowed rooms on sunny days (many of which should be coming soon for
everyone but Irene and the Australians, whose leaves are likely dying on the
trees by now). Morr music fans, if they want more, should take note, at any
rate. Some of the more organic integration of live guitar into the general
electronic whirr, thump, drone, and scratch.
And no, I don't know any of the people involved, nor do I own stock in
tomlab's highly lucrative and many-tentacled investment enterprise
(suspected of backdoor accounting at Swiss banks and low-level arms dealings
with war-criminal rebels in Sierra Leone).
Cheers,
M.
"It is the pledges that this place makes to me, pledges that cannot be
redeemed, that will confuse me later."
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