Sometimes you just need music you can ignore. This can be for a variety of reasons. Case in point.
Rob in High Fidelity needed it. His girlfriend, Laura, had just broken up with him, he didn’t want to talk with anyone and Dick’s Belle and Sebastian was just right. The perfect blend of wispy vocals and understated guitars. Nothing in the face or particularly threatening to the psyche, just, mind my expression, chill-out music. But then the incorrigible Barry comes and rips out If You’re Feeling Sinister, freebee tosses it to Dick and brazenly pops in his Monday morning mix as only Barry can. Hilarity ensues, and then frustration on the part of Rob for he was only wanting music he could ignore.
Not silence. For in silence pain can be amplified, but a gentle background to smooth his mangled heart. Not that I ever actually felt sorry for Rob, but you can understand why he would want some ignorable music. Some would say that includes all instrumental music and some would say that all pop music is ignorable, or all heavy metal, the list continues on depending on the person, but I would offer another album to the list of albums for reading to, studying to, making love to, or sleeping to and that album would be, well, that would be this one.
Pulby aka Maurice Carlin creates a sonic landscape that looks a little something like the deconstructed techno grooves of early British turntablists clouded over with the horizon of blissful throbbing bass lines. Although it’s a rather basic formula with little vocals added to the final product, several more straight up indie-pop bands will come to mind when listening to the album, namely Clinic.
The band has previously released a split 7” with Primary Painter and this is their second effort. Soundfreeze is already sold out, and I can only assume that the former record is as well, so if you are looking to add to your chill-out collection then this isn’t a bad pick up, but you’ll have to do it bootleg style.
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