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Recommended by us on 25th February 2010
...according to our Brian on Thu 25 Feb, 2010.
Absolutely love this record so far, it's perfect English bedroom pop - this feller Simon Break possesses a plaintive, half spoken sing-song vocal style (kinda like a male Lily Allen!) but he makes this fizzing, joyous music that sounds like a very continental version of Magnetic Fields - highly melodic DIY pop tinged with some embryonic late 70s Kraut twist; also there's a new-wave pop heart beating away under all this. The songs can veer from kitch library glam to sad-eyed dream-pop vignettes. I'm reminded in a way of both Momus & Felix Kubin, this arch blending of commercial electronic pop with a very individualistic heart & soul. One of the nicest surprises of the year so far, style-wise this has Ant recalling the electro-pop poetry of The Vichy Government whilst Brett is haunted by an unholy marriage between David Tibet & Ian Broudie in the vocals.• The European is a solo musical project of Simon Break based in London, England.
• Simon has been producing and performing electronic dance, pop and experimental music since the early 90s as well as being involved in various projects across the fields of conceptual art, economic theory and software development.
• Now with The European, Simon is tying up the varied threads of his work to date to produce something completely new. Influenced by classic pop, computer music, seventies minimalism, krautrock, and vintage blues and folk, The European is a step sideways into a mainstream that never was. Songs are short, strange, deliberately banal or faux-objective, holographic or tightly focussed. The European rejects the staple pop subject matter of romance, longing and facile self-actualisation in favour of themes of compromise, frustration, psychosexual angst and cultural confusion.
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