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ARTiST....: pentatonik
TiTLE.....: the five angels
LABEL.....: Hydrogen Dukebox
GENRE.....: electronic
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 67,10 MB
REL.DATE..: jun-03-2007
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01] the remembrance of your touch 04:38
02] credo 04:04
03] the last one and the first 05:30
04] cassiopeia 04:38
05] sunrise over white feather beach 03:37
06] zeitgeist 08:10
07] storm over the manifold 02:28
08] love is a rose 05:31
09] sapphire turns to dust 04:34
10] the rebirth of light 05:58
TOTAL TiME : 49:08 min
With The Five Angels Bowring returns with his
heart still securely stapled to his sleeve. Synth
strings and pianos collide in delicately intricate
patterns. The cinematic touch is in full effect,
sometimes (as on !The Last One and the First" and
"Love Is a Rose") accompanied by the wistful,
classically beautiful voice of Kirsty Hawkshaw.
This is IDM in the old, Artificial Intelligence
sense of the term, completely untainted by the
post-Autechre glitchery of the past six (seven?
eight?) years. It's a refreshing, much-needed
break.
It's the individual sounds that shine here, and I
can just imagine Bowring slaving over certain
noises, tweaking them until heÆs certain they will
resonate for the listener. Or perhaps just for
himself. Either way, The Five Angels is about the
smooth integration of these fine-tuned, if
sometimes disparate elements, rather than the
ferocity/complexity of their presentation, a fact
which sets this album apart from many of its
contemporaries. You wonÆt find any dissected
breaks here, but if it's melody you're after and
perhaps a touch of oldschool "electronic listening
music", Pentatonik does not disappoint.
Buy me if you love me :)