Demdike Stare - Liberation Through Hearing (Modern Love - LOVE065)
It's been a long time since I've listened to "dark" ambient type of stuff but this release was almost forced on me after hearing about it from a ton of friends and fellow artists. It took a good three weeks until I finally heard it in full though, yesterday when I bought the MP3s at Boomkat.
Since then I've probably listened to it 10 times. A great album takes you on a journey, crossing all kinds of moods and genres and that description fits like a glove. Well actually it doesn't, the LP goes from anxiety to manicism to solitude and back and nowhere near jolly/happy land, but you catch my drift nay?
The music is largely sample based and processed heavily.
I can't really distinguish what has been "stolen", it is so creatively done (unlike most sampling in electronic music). Actually the sample work reminds me of mid 00s Surgeon material but this is not dance music, don't get me wrong! Unless you're into some dadaistic introvert dance routines.
The only bad thing I can say about this release is rather high vinyl pricing. I will of course buy the vinyl since I am a fanatic aficionado, but I can hardly convince you who "only" listens to music to buy the vinyl 1xLP (16EURO+postals) instead of the digital (6EURO). No matter, this music works in whatever format and all support of artists are approved of!
PS: kudos for the hard work on Demdike Stare imagery/artworks! Wish more artists were as creatively stringent.
Samples:
Buy the vinyl here
Buy the MP3s here
