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Golden Grrrls - New Pop 7”

Chris Devotion & The Expectations - Amalgamation & Capital (album)

Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester (album)

Throwing Up - Mother Knows Best 7”

Howling Wolf - Complete Chess Masters 1951-60

The Ketamines - A Rotten Bond/1 Yr (from Oddbox Singles Club Pt 2)

Cardinal - Hymns (album)

Proper Ornaments - Taking the Gamble Out of Buying 12”

Darren Hayman - January Songs (album)

Various: Marshall Teller EP 12”

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Album Review

The Implosion Quintet
The Future Sound of Yesterday Cookshop Records

Article written by Ged M - Jun 30, 2009

The Implosion Quintet: The Future Sound of Yesterday

The Implosion Quintet is five times oversold; it’s one guy, the Norway-resident James Baker, who started hip hop hybrid experiments on a crude program on a Playstation in 2001. Now his album is like 30 channels of radio playing simultaneously, mashing up gypsy jazz, Middle Eastern folk, Tropicalia, prog, space-blues and stoner rock, with intriguing samples scattererd around and an intentionally rough-edged feel. Sometimes it’s dizzying, sometimes it’s dull; you could say Beirut meets Animal Collective meets Dead Meadow but it doesn’t sit still long enough to attach such a tag. I kept tuning in and out of the songs but returned to just a couple: ‘Bone Sideways’ mixes opera and rock riffs before turning into some sort of James Bond spy soundtrack and the accordion-led folk-mash ‘We Fight The Swan’ is a magnificent travelogue in sound and time. It’s a conceptual piece and maybe one to dip in and out of – his Myspace page is a good place to start - but who wouldn’t love an artist who thanks his listeners for “making this all seem a little less like masturbation”. This is one to enjoy with friends.

Links:
http://www.implosionquintet.com/
http://www.cookshopmusic.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/implosionquintet