Description:	CD on Soma
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Electronica / IDM
	Label:	Soma
	Price:	£10.79
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Phil on 23 August 2007.

Vector Lovers release their 3rd album proper on Soma and they continue in their explorations of all things electronic. 'Afterglow' is an album full of primetime IDM style electronics with dashes of electro and a small thrusping of ambience thrown in for good measure. There's nothing particularly new on here but I think it's consistently good and an entertaining listen.

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What their label says...

Martin Wheeler creates the album he always longed to make with his third Vector Lovers outing on Soma Records.‘Afterglow’ is 20 years in the making, sampling tracks written by Wheeler from as far back as the late eighties. Martin says, “The album is a mix of new and previously unreleased material – field recordings, analogue sounds and rediscovered Portastudio tapes of my first synthesizer from 1987 – vintage Vector Lovers reassembled in Ableton Live”.‘Afterglow’ moves on from the futuristic anime-influenced robotic funk of the last two albums, bringing a much less synthetic, more humane vibe than its predecessors, taking past Vector Lovers classics such as ‘Melodies & Memory’ and ‘Tokyo Glitterati’ as prototypes for the new work. From the creaky rhythms and drifting melodies of ‘Half-Life’ through vast sound paintings such as ‘Last Day of Winter’ and ‘Rusting Cars & Wildflowers’, from the cinematic lamentation of ‘Piano Dust’ and the hypnotic dancefloor numbers ‘A Field’ and ‘Crash Premonition’, through to the blissful conclusion of ‘Afterglow’, this is a delightfully serene album.