Description:	7" on Expanding
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Electronica / IDM
	Label:	Expanding
	Price:	£5.29
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5
...according to our Phil on 13 November 2008.

Expanding have re launched their 7" series but instead of thick plastic sleeves and weapons grade thick coloured vinyl you get a nice wraparound sleeve with a lovely photo on. It looks like it may have been influenced by the recent Touch 7" series. These look nice, though I'm struggling to write anything about it as the conversation in the office is about toilet bits and whether elephants cocks are bigger than horses cocks. I don't know how much longer I can work here. Anyhoo this here PQ single is lovely. 'Louise On Earth' is like some Spanish sounding acoustic flamenco sounding guitar with what sounds like a sweet girls voice weaving in and bobbing about of it. It's totally beautiful and she slightly reminds me of the woman from Blonde Redhead. Listen to this with enough booze in your belly and you'll be in floods of tears like some big misery sack. As is the flipside with it being some gorgeous piano not a million miles away from some of the earlier Sylvan Chauveau or perhaps a bit like Max Richter. A haunting yet beautiful 7"! I'm gonna keep this one short and sweet I've written words in this review which would make the sentence ' weapons grade cocks and sack touch girls toilets' which is clearly wrong.

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What their label says...

The first 7” on Expanding in over three years opens a new series of limited edition custom-sleeved singles from the renowned “non-vocal electronic music” label, and also marks something of a departure from the past in that it features a vocal track and was made with (almost all) acoustic instruments. pq are Samir Bekaert and Maarten Vanderwalle, who hail from Bruges in Belgium, but apparently you’ll never find then there. Vocals are by 14 year old Louise Raes, and the a-side track which bears her name is a preview to pq’s full length CD due in 2009. In their own words; “pq represent a hybrid electronic/acoustic affair, integrating mellow-to-crispy beats, various string material and crunchy insects of all sorts. Propagating on influences ranging from late nineties post-rock to leftfield/ IDM/ indietronic- pastiche, they propose to canalize the allreigning, all-consuming contemporary eclecticism in an effort to reinstall the inner health.” More info and a taste of the album at www.myspace.com/pqpoison.