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BassGit has written the following articles:
Electric Guest - Mondo
Trimmed down from over a hundred tracks, Electric Guest's Mondo can best be classified as sunny, thigh-slapping pop, or LCD Soundsystem with table manners.»
Asonat - Love in Times of Repetition
As predictable as Asonat’s debut is it makes brilliant background music, and anyone interested in snowmen or Aphex Twin will be able to have a good smoke to most of it.»
Dean Blunt, Inga Copeland - Black Is Beautiful
There are some brilliant tailpieces on Black is Beautiful and some wonderful impressions of a travel sick Alan Clavier, but they’re hampered by too many dead ends and retreaded ground.»
Tigercats - Isle of Dogs
Tigercats mewl till you can’t help but fall for them, irresistible as Supergrass in pin-badges.»
LHF - Keepers of the Light
The Traveling Wilburys of bass music.»
Biosphere - Compilation 1991-2004
Sometimes a mess, sometimes a golden mix of self-analysis and faded software, this is the sound of Geir Jennsen getting comfortable, with all the rolling over that implies.»
Miike Snow - Happy to You
The same mix of insights vs. bongo drops but now with gentler electronics, like Hot Chip wearing wooly jumpers.»
Demdike Stare - Elemental
There are so many strange ideas here Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker should be awarded doctorates - they’ve reshaped dance music till the only person who can move to it is crazy Arthur Brown himself.»
Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales
Like the Spinal Tap Stone Henge scene done seriously, Jim Jupp combines prog rock and medieval mysteries, saluting every vicar who tripped balls in his study.»
Burial - Kindred
Will Bevan’s done the unthinkable in managing to both appease and pull the rug out from under his fans.»
Fresh Touch - The Ethiopian
It’s to The Ethiopian’s credit than it ploughs its own furrow, and doesn’t try to cash in on the excitement in the north of the continent where Africa’s face is shifting.»
Bhi Bhiman - Bhiman
Bhiman’s balancing of acid lyrics and ol’ tunes lift it from the current crop of folk albums it’s competing with. Even if you hate both blues music and progressive thinking, you’ll struggle to detest this whole album.»
Symmetry - Themes for an Imaginary Film
Pack some blister plasters with your toothpicks. You’ll be gone for two hours. »
Tribes - Baby
If you got concussed during the first Pearl Jam tour and have only just come out of your coma, boy, have we got a great new sound for you. »
Swod - Drei
One of the most unique acts on the Berlin electronica scene, Swod are a duo with a supernatural edge. »
Eleventhfloorrecords - Eleventhfloorrecords
If your favourite John Hughes films never had loud enough soundtracks, prepare to fall in love.»
Peter Broderick - Music for Confluence
An interesting, if somewhat repressed OST.»
King's Daughters and Sons - If Then Not When
If Then Not When reaches the quality you’d expect of a November Chemikal Underground release: wintry, beautiful… basically the Delgados on an iced-over dirt trail.»
Tycho - Dive
Dive has been a long time in preparation, and should appease all the Tycho/Boards of Canada fans who’ve been starved since well before the credit crunch.»
Sun Glitters - Everything Could Be Fine
Not content to sit around waiting for the next Burial album to drop, Luxembourg’s Victor Ferreira has taken the initiative and written and recorded it himself.»
Kuedo - Severant
Teasdale’s recipes seem so effective you want to fly him over to America and let him revamp the school dinner system. »
Andy Stott - We Stay Together
Despite its surface nastiness, We Stay Together is Andy Stott’s most natural sounding release to date, built on boiling seas, cave noises, jungle squawks, and some kind of new Antarctic sponge.»
To Destroy A City - To Destroy A City
By anyone’s standards To Destroy A City is a rich, accessible debut.»
Jonsson/Alter - Mod
They make a good job with what they’ve got, dripping and clicking and producing clouds of steam and static, but it’s hard not think of what might have been if they’d only encompassed one more sound.»
L-VIS 1990 - Neon Dreams
James Connolly might look like Jedward, and most of Neon Dreams might be designed to be deployed during all-weather housewarmings, but tracks such as ‘True Romance’ show he’s a producer worth watching.»
Momus , John Henriksson - Thunderclown
Thunderclown album is one clever little pantomime, as listenable as it is anarchic and with so much bile under its surface it’s a wonder the case hasn’t got ulcers.»
Jeff Bridges - Jeff Bridges
A surprisingly heartfelt piece of work, packed with enough hooks and harmonies to show Jeff Bridges is obviously a keen student of the greats. »
male bonding - Endless Now
This album is a reminder of the healing power of three dweebs, or how much fun it would be to watch Brian Wilson getting caught in a triangle of punk.»
Miles - Facets
The sound of a great man losing his marbles, very carefully getting it all on tape. »
Swimming - Ellipses
'Organic ambient' is the term they use now, and Ferrucci’s pretty good at it: without once raising his heart rate he skirts a rainbow of feelings, ticking off the four moods ambient music provokes (stoned, exhilarated, stoned while exhilarated and asleep).»