Whatever this new Bogdan Raczynski EP is actually
titled, and however you pronounce it, I just don't
really give a damn. He can make all the emo-core
polish folk music he wants, but it's still just polish
folk music.
I respect an artist for trying to do something
different, for putting effort into challenging
himself. If this is what he likes, then so be it.
If you love his first two albums on Rephlex, and don't
normally buy eastern-euro inspired minimal accordian
melodies, you probably won't like the new EP. Don't
be afraid to not like his new music. Stand up and be
proud to proclaim the new Bogdan sucky! Declare his
best days have come and gone, it's OK!
On a more technical level, while I've only taken one
music class, three years ago in college, I feel I
learned enough to say that the melodies in this EP are
just stale. He chooses a couple of chords, brings you
ploddingly from one to the next and then back again,
all the while another "instrument" is fluttering
around between the individual notes in the given
chords. This might be a bad way to describe some of
the most inspired jazz, but I don't think it misses
the point on this EP, because the only point to this
EP seems to be Bogdan sharing his nostalgia for a time
that is now lost for him. Something to that effect.
Good for him, boring for us.
I really like the first track on the EP. Maybe
because, with the stacatto accordian/organ sound, it's
the closest to his earlier, wild, fast d'n'b
escapades.
I really hate the last track on the EP. Mostly
because of the little "trick" of ending the song
before it's over. I mean, it's just getting revved
up, and then he goes and chops it off on a leading
note, and while it serves its jarring purpose, it just
feels amateurish.
On the one hand, there's nothing wrong with a master
craftsman who knows all the tricks and methods
deciding to use the simpler ones for a given effect.
On the other hand, Bogdan just does not strike me as a
master crafstman at all.
So yeah, I guess I'm just being negative again, but I
just don't think this EP deserved NME's single of the
week spot, not do I think I'll bother buying his next
album if it's more of the same. Sad for me.
-Adam
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