Wednesday, June 28, 2006  10:36 pm 

No huskies.

Purveyors of Noise and stuff that is ‘experimental’, Excepter, have a new LP out next month. It’s a bit more coherent, nay, dancey than previous efforts too. Its not exactly Crystal Castles Rave! But y’know, you can bop ya head to da beat.

Do the quirky jerk-jerk:

Excepter - Rock Stepper

So yep, bit more song based than a lot of the older stuff. I see it in Throbbing Gristle terms: Old stuff is like ‘We Hate You (Little Girls)’ and then this new LP is more ‘United’ and ‘Hot On The Heels Of Love’, as if those tracks were remixed by the likes of Black Dice.

The vocals still sound like they’ve been recorded in a warehouse floating in limbo, and the sound is a bit more funked up but in a loose disjointed way, with shuffly bass and random echoed bleeps. Its like Techno for stoners in other words. That insistent giant-fly-buzzing-around sound might freak the stoners though so watch out.

Sorry for using the word ‘experimental’ before, cos I’m not too sure what that actually means. Isn’t all music experimental? You experiment with different sounds, and ways of making it, and then you get a result. Some wastemen and wastewomen make fucking horrible crap that Ministry Of Sound force into the charts using fuck dumb cunty compilations mixed by ‘Superstar DJ’s’ - yeah great, why not put a generic bass beat onto the Baywatch theme tune, yeah then I can wear my best Hackett shirt and dance badly to it with girls who look like this and then on the way home I can eat and then vomit back up my fucking kebab and break some indie-kids face cos he looks gay.

Nah, we want experiments with brains and intelligence:

Broadcast have always kind of floated along not making any loud noises, just rippling with goodness under the surface. They’re a sort of alternate static-grey version of Goldfrapp or a silent movie version of Miss Kittin & the Hacker - electronic to the core but with a clinically sharp edge. No dancing. No huskies. No click-pop homage to dead crooners. Just warm white fuzz.

Broadcast - Small Song IV

When Kate Bush released her last album it wasn’t the second coming that it was meant to be but hey, its all hype talk anyways. She should have returned the favour and listened to Broadcast because ‘Small Song IV’ should have been what ‘Aerial’ should of sounded like: a robotic Nico singing over incidental music from Twin Peaks with her finger hovering over the aggro/echo switch on the keyboard - pretty. It comes from the August scheduled rarities LP, ‘Future Crayon’, buy it so that Warp realise that this is the way forward not Maximo Fucking Park. Thanks!

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