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The Sun, by Fridge (CD on Text)

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Rating: happy This record left our Phil feeling happy.

Fridge are back with a new album. Bet you weren't expecting that.... they've got back together for their brand new studio album called 'The Sun'. The percussive opener is just like Four Tet with it's drums and not much else. The rest of the album follows suit with some more experimental random bits, some semi acoustic bits, some tuneful bits, some more rocky bits. Track 5 (Eyelid) is my favourite as it ends up sounding like Billy Mahonie or something. Wasn't expecting that at all. It's an interesting listen and overall it's quite enjoyable. It does seem to wander off hither and thither and seem a bit pointless some time..... It's not their strongest album by any stretch of the means but it (just about) does the trick.

What the label says:

*Fridge features Kieran Hebden who has had great success with his solo
project Four Tet, releasing the albums 'Pause', 'Rounds' and 'Everything
Ecstatic' on Domino Records.
*Fridge also features Adem who has released the albums 'Homesongs' and
'Love and Other Planets' on Domino Records to much critical acclaim and
success.
*This is the first Fridge album since their groundbreaking masterpiece
'Happiness' in 2001.  It will be the fifth Fridge album.
*Fridge were part of the influential post rock movement of the 90's
alongside bands like Mogwai and Tortoise.  Mojo magazine recently said
they were "one of the great British bands of the 90's".
*This new album sees them continue to make boundary pushing music that
brings together elements of rock, electronic music and jazz.
*Fridge's music will appeal to fans of bands like Radiohead, Mars Volta,
Tortoise, Mogwai, Boards of Canada.
*Post-rock is a tired term now, but on The Sun, as always, Fridge summon up
the energy, openness and ambition of its earliest moments.  There are no
bass solos, but bowed cymbal, bells, and whistles wash through the mix in
a complete recoding of rock DNA. And don't look for po-faced counting of
bars and beats. Listen to Sam Jeffers' battering drum pattern which erupts
from the record's first seconds.  There's an exuberance you'd expect from
a garage band sensibility.
*But The Sun has a coherent sound - which is amazing given the number of
musical bases bounced off over its 11 tracks. 'Clocks' could be Radiohead as
interpreted by Slint. 'Eyelids' is as agile and punchy as anything by Battles.
But they make total sense sat next to blissful lullabies like 'Our Place in
This' or 'Year and Years and Years and Years' and even an explosive sketch
like 'Drums of Life'. Fridge even make 'Comets' make sense, with its low
pulse of drum machine that could fit a Miami bass record and bright lines
of Detroit synth. Double bass and glockenspiel help weave it into the acoustic
tangles which follow on 'Insects'. But really it's Fridge's harmonies that hold
The Sun together, joining up the dots between their disparate interests and
influences.
*FORMATS : Extremely limited double coloured vinyl, 500 only. Digipak cd
with Japanese style obi strip.

*Tracklist: 1 The Sun (3:20) 2 Clocks (7:44)  3 Our Place in This (4:32)
4 Drums of Life (0:38) 5 Eyelids (2:44) 6 Oram (5:52)  7 Comets (5:19)
8 Insects (5:18) 9 Lost Time (5:52) 10 Years and Years and Years and Years
(5:52)

 

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The CD is essentially a small portable face mirror which has an extra feature of being able to play music (through a thing known as a CD player). These CD's are a modern invention hence them being all shiny and digital. They can hold about 80 minutes of music and apparently are indestructible as you can smear jam on them and they still play (not as nourishing as toast mind you but when you're hungry.....). They sound crystal clear and are tiny convenient things. They lack the charm and warmth of their old analogue counterparts but their portability, convenience and ease of being duplicated make them a perfect thing of a thing for most folks. Jewel cases are the worst thing ever though and they really need to stop.

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