Anna Wall is a resident a Fabric, but you wouldn’t really know it from this album. It takes in a number of styles, but we’re a long way from any kind of a beat. There are shiny synth melodies like some kind of retro-futuristic sci-fi soundtrack; there’s vaguely Eno-esque electronic ambience (Murmurations has some lovely […]
Tag: genre_dream_pop
What a superbly accomplished, refreshing, and generally delightful debut album. This floats effortlessly between lush minimal-ish tech house and dream pop, all swooning synths and aethereal vocals, underpinned by a clicky beat and delicately enhanced by little blips and bloops which I feel the need to describe as “graceful”. It’s the little details that really make this […]
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Grouper: A I A (2CD, Kranky, April 2012)
I’d never quite got Grouper (aka Liz Harris) before. I remember the fuss about 2008’s Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill, and at the time I didn’t quite see the attraction. After taking the plunge with this double album, though, I’m a fully paid-up fan. Let’s start with the more conventional half, Alien Observer: […]
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