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Artist: Bibio
Album: Ambivalence Avenue
Label: Warp
Playtime: 42:53 min
Genre: Electronic
URL:
Rip date: 2009-06-19
Street date: 2009-06-22
Size: 60.53 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 184 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Although UK electronic/experimental artist Bibio issued no fewer than three
substantial recordings in 2009, it's unlikely that not even his loved ones
were prepared to hear beats on his Warp debut. Born Stephen Wilkinson, Bibio
writes tranquil, murky folk music that integrates as much tape-reel
manipulation as it does feathery light guitar picking. Ambivalence Avenue is
scatterbrained but usually charming, and it differs considerably from his
months-old Mush Records releasesùwhile "Abrasion" is rich with the carefree
'60s sound he'd captured for this year's Vignetting the Compost or even
2006's Hand Cranked, "Fire Ant" is full-on One Word Extinguisher-type
hip-hop, a glitchy, sample-heavy banger with far-left-field origins.
The jittery framework of "Fire Ant" on Ambivalence Avenue would strike most
as improbable if there weren't such diverse influences at work here.
Wilkinson's fondness for psychedelia and perpetual nods toward friends Boards
of Canada ring true in his application of analog equipment, but he'll
probably garner some comparisons to California producers Nobody or Madlib,
too. At the very least, the sparkling, freaked-out beat-driven numbers such
as "Cry! Baby!" or "S'vive" will have Wilkinson's West Coast musical brethren
big-upping Ambivalence Avenue and then promptly loading it into their
samplers.
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01. Ambivalence Avenue ( 3:42)
02. Jealous Of Roses ( 2:35)
03. All The Flowers ( 1:05)
04. Fire Ant ( 4:58)
05. Haikuesque (When She Laughs) ( 3:32)
06. Sugarette ( 3:54)
07. Lovers Carvings ( 3:58)
08. Abrasion ( 2:46)
09. S'Vive ( 4:05)
10. The Palm Of Your Wave ( 2:25)
11. Cry ! Baby ! ( 3:58)
12. Dwrcan ( 5:55)
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