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...according to our Phil on Fri 13 Nov, 2009.
Samuel & The Dragon are the latest installment of Moshi Moshi's singles club. It starts off very oddly this one.... with just a weird electronic swirlyness.... and then some Chris Martin/ James Blunt vocals pop in and stay until it's finished. The song picks up with some electronic beat which is actually quite nice.... as is the aforementioned swirly thing.... The vocals are a wee bit slushy and ernest for me. It's making me want to cry... I have to say the music is weirdly interesting though.... I'm just not keen on the vocals at all. Nothing new for me though as I pretty much hate the sound of the human voice. The quicker our voice boxes fade out and we grow extra fingers for faster typing the better. Diamonds On A Boat is 7" only you madheads.
TRACKLISTING:
Side A – Diamonds On A Boat
Side B – Rising Up
OVERVIEW:
An arresting vocal, held in heartbreaking solitude by a brittle framework of sounds, Diamonds On A Boat is the astonishing debut single from Samuel & The Dragon.
Samuel’s voice is an effortless confession, calling down the line amid James Cameron’s ambient mix of the organic and electronic; a warm but isolated sound of the city.
On Diamonds On a Boat a projector’s wheel turns; an image cast with contrast up, a detailed emotive delivery. On B-side Rising Up an organ burrs interrupted by a distant current; percussive clicks and bleeps alluding to an urban soul, a kind of pared down dub-step.
Live, Samuel & The Dragon are an otherworldly creature, reaching out through improvised projections and the haunting constructions of urban influenced electronica.
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