Artist : Miller + Fiam
Title : Modern Romance
Genre : Indie / Electronic
Year : 2006
Date : Jul-2006
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 13
Label : Expanding ecd24:06
Source : CDDA
Length : 39:59 min
Size : 52,10 MB
Tracklist:
----------
01.tempest in a teacup 01:50
02.tired neighbourhood bird 02:57
03.armchair 02:30
04.edge of midnight 03:14
05.band on the street 03:57
06.thousand francs 03:22
07.complex kisses 04:16
08.wise coward 01:59
09.too often 03:30
10.i need a riverboat 04:27
11.martino's 03:36
12.slowing to a stop 02:46
13.dead sea 01:35
-------
39:59 min
Proving that Perth isn't just where unwanted Neighbours
characters move upon expiry, Dave Miller has spent the past
few years putting the Aussie-city on the musical map
through a series of micro-founded emissions.
Evidently after a bit of company to see through the
Southern-hemisphere nights, Miller has popped the little
black-book and sought out fellow Oz-bloke Fiam (aka Harry
Hohnen) to get collaborative with - the result being
'Modern Romance'.
Coated in a fine layer of wispy atmospherics, Miller + Fiam
have one speed; inoffensive electronica, a status they
stick to with dogged enthusiasm. Sharing a great deal with
last year's 'Et In Arcadia Ego' from The Village Orchestra,
'Modern Romance' opens with the heat-haze of 'Tempest In A
Teacup' - wherein a swell of electronic squall gradually
consumes the chittering core of metallic chimes and
pulsating bass.
From here, 'Tired Neighbourhood Bird' adds more tacit
substance through skittering electronica and dusty piano,
'Edge Of Midnight' tricks a nursery-rhyme melody into a
rotating heart of digitalis, whilst 'Slowing To Stop'
introduces a double-bass for oddly malignant atmospherics.
Closing with the shimmering static of 'Dead Sea' (the kind
of music you'd expect to soundtrack a dream sequence in a
beatific Manga film), 'Modern Romance' is an undeniably
appealing journey to the soft-centred core of electronica.
I'm in the mood for dancing, romancing...