Artist: Chad Valley
Title: Equatorial Ultravox
Label: Loose Lips
Genre: Electronic
Bitrate: 271kbit av.
Time: 00:28:49
Size: 58.93 mb
Rip Date: 2011-05-19
Str Date: 2011-06-20
01. Now That I'm Real 3:34
02. Reach Lines 4:00
03. Shell Suite 4:21
04. Acker Bilk 4:01
05. Fast Challenges 5:13
06. I Want Your Love 4:36
07. Shapeless 3:04
Release Notes:
Chad Valley is the solo guise of Hugo Manuel, lead singer with Jonquil
and one of the founder members of Oxford's Blessing Force collective,
along with Trophy Wife and Rhosyn. His eponymous debut, released last
winter on experimental pop label Cascine scored exceptional reviews and
widespread radio support from Zane Lowe, Annie Mac, Huw Stephens and
Lauren Laverne. In addition to his own packed out solo shows Chad
Valley has toured with the likes of The Concretes and Twin Shadow.
Opening track Now That I?m Real is an affectionate paean to youth's
fragile dreams; "Reach Lines" shimmers like heat hovering above a
sun-baked earth; "Shell Suite" features a pulsing glow aching to fill
the dancefloor, whilst "Fast Challenges", "I Want Your Love" and
"Shapeless" are three cuts with rhythms of phantasmagorical elegance.
The seven tracks on Equatorial Ultravox are drenched in currents of
jet-stream wanderlust. Lush atmospherics obscure any directly
decipherable lyric but the message is clear û this is affirmative,
ethereal, and exquisite in its pop essence.
http://www.myspace.com/hugomanuel