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Various: Dark Was The Night

Passion Pit: Sleepyhead (EP track)

Betty & The Werewolves: David Cassidy 7”

Crystal Stilts: Love is a Wave 7”

Sin Fang Bous: Clamour (album)

Nodzzz: s/t (12” LP)

Love Is All: A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (album)

Sons of Noel and Adrian: A Wreck Is Not A Ship (track)

Slow Down Tallahassee/ Standard Fare: split 7”

Piney Gir & The Age of Reason Of All The Wonderful Things (single)

Navvy: Idyll Intangible (album)

Various: Cathedral Classics Vol 1 (Sonic Cathedral comp)

Fanfarlo: Reservoir (album)

Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career (album)
 

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Album Review

Angil + Hiddntracks
Ouliposaliva Chemikal Underground

Article written by Ged M
Dec 21, 2008.

Angil + Hiddntracks
Angil + Hiddntracks
Oulipo, or “Ouvroir de literature potentielle” (Workshop of Potential Literature) was a French movement of the 1960s whose members used constrained writing techniques. Mickaël Mottet uses the same techniques on his album, avoiding the letter E or the use of the E chord (his collaborators, Hiddentracks, have had to alter their name to fit the concept). It’s a French device but Mottet sings in a distinctively English way, sounding more like Mike Skinner and Robert Wyatt. Musically there’s jazz, hip hop and a strange inverted sort of avant-pop in the mix here, which develops the themes of the Teaser For: Matter album from 4 years ago. It’s curious and unsettling, which aren’t necessarily bad things; ‘Trying To Fit’ is like a jazzy Streets, with wonky electronica, discordant piano and a parping clarinet while ‘Took No Drugs, Had No Drink (it was all in our minds)’ has a strange detuned piano sound using a battered instrument salvaged from a clothes shop display, and some footstomping Disney-esque percussion. There's a creative intelligence burning brightly behind the album but it's never displayed too ostentatiously.

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