Graham Reid | | 1 min read
Grayson Gilmour's recent album Holding Patterns was – for the most part – very well received Elsewhere but as with many contemporary artists (Unknown Mortal Orchestra's recent V a prime example) there was a tendency to shift ground frequently so promising ideas weren't always sustained or explored more.
On Holding Patterns there was also the instrumental title track which we said seemed to have dropped in from a very different album.
But the best was as good as it gets.
And now here are four different artists taking a track apiece and working their remix magic.
The airy pop of Here We Are is retained but given a prominent pulsing dancefloor beat and electro-colour by Yvois; the similarly light dream-pop of Day Moon already came with angular percussive rhythms, spaciousness and a kind of orchestrated electronica denouement is tipped into something more ethereal through sonic subtraction in its opening overs by Felix Holton before the busy beats arrive (it becomes a remix of distinct parts) and Julien Dyne also takes the instantly appealing Maat Mons – which we said “lands between experimental baroque pop and dancefloor electrofunk – into the region of prominent beats.
It seems only right the courageously experimental Motte should have picked up that space ambient title track for a 10 minute, beatless exploration with taonga pūoro which is suitably atmospheric, New Age and out-there.
Interesting album but a nice-to-have more than something essential and seriously diverting.
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You can hear and buy this album at bandcamp here
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