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GEORGE & CAPLIN - THINGS PAST (BETA-LACTAM RING RECORDS) |
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G&C's music effectively combines glitch, experimental,
ambient, darkwave, with sometimes pop running through
this amalgam filter, to create music that is both
beautiful and strange. "Things Past" kicks off with
the brief but gorgeous ambience of "Outskirts of
Combray." From there we hear the title track, a bit of
stoned glitch-pop synthyness with a touch of lushness.
"Stationwagon Sleepingbag" pulses with soothing
glitchwork and meandering twists of electronic melody.
"Her Kleenex Laughter" brings some buzz to the
proceedings and seems to be somehow elevating and
hitting gently an endorphin center of the brain; it's
pretty in an unconventional way. One has to wonder if
"Windowpane Rain" is a reference to acid, LSD, you
dig? Windowpane, get it? Of course, oddly, it also is
more organic than previous tracks, with acoustic
guitar work. Electronica is present as accompaniment,
by the way. And this is one of the album's more
emotive tracks, inspiring melancholy and quietude.
"Meringue Memories" reaches for epic expansiveness and
transcendence, hinting at being elevated to the end of
times, to sorry and joy in one big bang ... and it
trickles to the quietest of passages. "Fields Talk" is
a Edward Ka-Spel-ish return to ambient glitch-pop and
"Kickboard Anchor" maintains the glitch style but as a
more ambient-backed techno outing. "Filmstrips Fade"
feels for the heart of a child, dark and light sides
both, and also ponders from afar. "Roaming" is your
chance to do some mental, inward roaming of your own
and "Earl Grey Day" an appropriately evocative title.
Finally, "Stolen Scone" places ends the disc on an
alluring note of quietude. George & Caplin have
quickly established themselves as experimental artists
to be reckoned with and certainly one of Beta-lactam
Ring Records name artists. -- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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