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Album Review

:Papercutz
Lylac Apengine Recordings

Article written by James G - Oct 7, 2009

Papercutz: Lylac

Now, then, now then. This is hard to describe. But I’ll give it a go.

":Papercutz is about left-field and adventurous pop music". So they tell me. It’s experimental all right. Not that that’s a bad thing. This is a thoroughly engaging and enjoyable album, 13 tracks full of abstract sounds, bouncy beats and jerky rhythms. Pianos swoop in and out, zithers hover hither and thither… Jeez, they’ve got me at it now. Clicks, whirrs and shuffles seem to announce each track, and when the sometimes distorted, sometimes foreign, sometimes Kirsty MacColl, sometimes Sinead O’Connor, sometimes well, other, female vocals come in… it’s another sound, rather than a narrative. The only other artist that comes to mind with a similar mission is Capitol K.

A somewhat churlish reaction would be to describe Bruno Miguel’s music project as little more than sonic wallpaper, ideally suited to the kind of bar where dreadlocked Spanish students sell you bottled beer for the equivalent of £8 a pint. I personally think this kind of stuff is better than that, and can be listened to, albeit alongside the massage table or the sofa…

Nah, this isn’t ‘adventurous pop music’. This is the most modern of modern Jazz, man. Smokin’.

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/papercutzed