s w e e t b e a t s
september.25.2002 - #1046
=============================================================================
artist : Languis
album : Untied
year : 2002
label : Simballrec
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : simballrec08
url : www.simballrec.com
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
=============================================================================
01.Waterfall 04:30
02.Touch A Cloud 04:08
03.Particles 04:45
04.Once 05:53
05.Orange Grove 05:19
06.A Leaf on My Shoulder 04:15
07.Night Collider 03:29
08.Somewhere 00:53
09.Dishes 04:03
10.Strip Me Out of My Time 12:26
10 tracks | 49:41 mins | 68,3 MB
=============================================================================
On Untied, Languis' fourth full-length album, the duo continues to
move their sound forward, inching closer toward the glitch sound of
their California peers such as Kid 606 and Matmos, yet still
embracing their post-rock roots. Marcos Chloca and Alejandro Cohen
absolutely submerse the album in dense layers of soft, gentle noise
-- flickering static, buzzing silence, phasing synth, tapping
percussion, droning ambience -- and do so in a seamless manner, all
of this noise harmonizing into a massive wall of sound. Yet the
wall-like noise never becomes poignant or even unsettling; rather,
it's surprisingly comforting, even blissful at times. Furthermore,
Chloca and Cohen space out the 50-minute album meticulously,
opening with the subtle "Waterfall," followed by the standout vocal
track "Touch a Cloud," and then progressively heading toward
challenging IDM before turning full circle for "Night Collider,"
the album's other standout moment. Like "Touch a Cloud," this song
employs a hushed vocal. It also features a simple acoustic guitar
rhythm, making it perhaps the most shimmering song on the album
because it seems so bare and ordinary amid such experimentation.
From here the duo heads toward the album-closing "Strip Me out of
My Time," a staggering 12-minute epic that summarizes everything
characteristic of Languis. The duo's past albums had similarly been
impressively unique and visionary, yet Untied stands apart for
seemingly paradoxical reasons: it's both simpler and more
ambitious. By keeping the album relatively brief and most of the
songs around the same three- to four-minute length, Languis has
fashioned Untied as a traditional pop/rock album; the careful
positioning of the vocal tracks and the epic album-capper further
this sense. However, as simple as Untied seems, it's actually a
leap forward for the duo, who quietly continues to inch from
post-rock to IDM by embracing the laptop-production style of their
California glitch peers. --AMG
=============================================================================
s w e e t b e a t s
--------------------------------------------------
greetings to kw, dps, sour, diss, dh, ms, tr & ube
=============================================================================
Files
Path
Size
[BMW]-[Lo-Fi-2002]-(68.3 MB in 10 files of 192kbps Stereo)-[bender@rec