Tuesday, June 18, 2013

#917 Squarepusher - Shobaleader One: d'Demonstrator

Are you sure this isn't the new Daft Punk album? Maybe its all the busted synths, poppy structures, and distorted vocals that's my best guess. There's no way it was RAM, so I'm gonna keep looking. Or maybe this is a Trent Reznor side pop project gone crazy (see that last track). Just saying, if you thought Solo Electric Bass still sounded too much like a typical Squarepusher album, this might be your answer.

Whoever made em, the songs are overrepetitive, churning in place on the same basic groove, but the tones shine with enough crystalline glinting that they can be a shinny distraction to work to. Nothing to write home about though, and hopefully not a direction Jenkinson intends on going any further with: it feels like he's already out of interesting places to take this particular idea 3/5

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