Are you lot listening? Tim Exile's 'Family Galaxy' IS single of the year. It must be. I can't imagine someone pulverising so many styles of club music into such an headfuck odyssey! On his debut LP for Warp, the well respected ex-junglist & party prankster blends his new glistening stew of disparate electronic styles with prowess. He is a musical pirate, a lone ranger dance-chef of the Heston Blumenthal breed. Brett doesn't like his vocal style and to be honest, away from the cosy confines of the epic single, it does start to grate with it's detached spoken roboticisms. Some tracks continue along a similar post D'n'B path to Pro-Agonist, obviously doffing a respectful cap to scene lynchpins such as AFX & Paradinas along the way. I'd call this electro space jungle pop with glitch sauce, the production is tasty & widescreen, his mathematical programming skills allowing the melodic urgency of the music to breathe heartily. He does, however, appeared to have dissected bits of Windowlicker and re-transplanted them in a couple of places which either showcases his incurable reverence for his mercurial peer or merely the timeless & groundbreaking influence of a tune that smashed "IDM" in the face with a brick and ran away laughing. If you loved the single and/or his earlier work then you'll surely dig 'Listening Tree'.
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What their label says...
Tim Exile presents a sprawling dark electro-pop masterpiece, drawing on baroque and industrial influences, as well as demonstrating his knack for great hooks and sonic experimentation.
· Some high profile dates around the release, including a performance at the Bloc Weekend and a performance at the Ether Festival in London, with a Futuresonic show in Manchester planned too. · Plan B described lead single ‘Family Tree’ as “Like realising you’re stood on the ceiling” – Single Of The Month.
Don’t Think We’re One * Family Galaxy * Fortress * There’s Nothing Left Of Me But Her And This * Pay Tomorrow * Bad Dust * Carouselle * When Every Day’s A Number * Listening Tree * I Saw The Weak Hand Fall
