Luke Vibert - We Hear You

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 06 Aug, 2009.

You know that Luke Vibert thing? That thing he does where for the first handful of tracks on an album you're all like "This is fucking mint" then a few tracks later you're all like "Ooh, he's a bit diverse" then by the end you're all like "What a silly billy"? Well he's done it again on his new one We Hear You (CD/triple LP on Planet Mu). He's a supremely talented guy and can turn his hand convincingly to pretty much any style under the sun but the way he attempts to do it all in the space of one album just ends up making the ones he's done under his own name a bit annoying (with Yoseph being my one personal exception). The initial tunes take in elements of dubstep and the soulful, sample-heavy hip-hop of the likes of Madlib and MF Doom and are the strongest on the album by far in my opinion, while later tracks flit about from style to style with his usual gay abandon.. House, acid, techno, blah blah blah. Plenty of them would be great tunes when heard alone, but personally I get a bit fatigued when they're all jumbled up together like this. Your mileage may vary..

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* Luke Vibert is back with an album under his own name that defies expectations.
* The songs on this album bend genre rules to Luke’s stylistic traits, his ear for great idiosyncratic samples, sweetly strange melody, big bass and sloppy drums.
* On ‘We Hear You’ he melds modes and effects across genres with his trademark quick wit and deft skills into a very solid, listenable and enjoyable album, one of his best to date.
* For example, songs like ‘De-pimp Act’ connect the dots between Terry Riley, dubstep bass and hip hop with a lightness that makes it seem like an everyday occurrence; ‘Hot Sick’ and ‘Square Footage’ sound like Daft Punk’s dreams
distilled.
* In contrast, ‘Dive and Lie Wrecked’ mixes up scary bass with 2-step drums and G-funk melody into something very much stranger than the sum of its parts. He regularly mines the best bits of the old school too, for example, ‘House Stabs’ mixes Inner City style stabs with melodic diva vocals and tight, swinging drums.
* ‘We Hear You’ definitely goes a long way to address any doubts that Luke is nothing less than a producer in a league of his own making strange and brilliant music.
* TRACKS:
- CD 01 BELIEF FILE 02 WE HEAR YOU 03 DE-PIMP ACT 04 HOT SICK 05 SQUARE FOOTAGE 06 BATTING FOR ENGLAND 07 PRETTY OLD ACID MUSIC 08 DIVE AND LIE WRECKED 09 COMPUTER COMPLEX 10 PORN SHIRTWEE 11 HOUSE STABS 12
MARVELLOUS MUSIC MACHINE 13 ARROGANCE
- 3LP A: BELIEF FILE WE HEAR YOU DE-PIMP ACT B: HOT SICK SQUARE FOOTAGE C: ELECTROPHY (*vinyl exclusive) BATTING FOR ENGLAND PRETTY OLD ACID MUSIC D: DIVE AND LIE WRECKED COMPUTER COMPLEX E: PORN SHIRTWEE HOUSE STABS F: MARVELLOUS MUSIC MACHINE ARROGANCE

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