Description:	LP on Post Present Medium
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Indie Pop
	Label:	Post Present Medium
	Price:	£7.69
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

4
...according to our Brian on 03 September 2009.

Silk Flowers are certainly vying for curious record of the week, having put 10 songs on a large vinyl record through Post Present Medium and called it after themselves. The music is quite brilliant in parts, taking in lo-fi cold wave electro ala Netherlands' Trumpett imprint, dinky mechanised kraut-pop and eyebrow raising analogue effects are only faintly marred by the Vic-Reeves-does-Ian-Curtis stentorian wonky robot goth vocals on half the tracks. As a contemporary tribute to late 70s/early 80s European synthesizer music & more deviant industrial pop experiments, this is a bloody excellent effort, consistently interesting & only occasionally hilarious to the point where our Anthony's shoulders start juddering like pistons. Sort those vocals out and you've got a potential album of the week in my eyes!

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What their label says...

· The lo-fi quality of ‘Silk Flowers’, recorded with Fred Thomas
of Saturday Looks Good To Me and City Center, reinforces
the bittersweet, emotional shadings of singer / multiinstrumentalist
Aviram Cohen’s baritone voice, suggesting
Scott Walker fronting an early Mute Records group.
· Songs lead by vocalist / electronics player Ethan Swan recall
the adenoidal Fury-era Chris Thompson backed by a
mechanized version of Crass. And the music throughout,
anchored by keyboardist Peter Schuette, fits beguiling
melodies sometimes reminiscent of utopian krautrockers
Harmonia and Tangerine Dream into condensed pop
structures.
· The group, encompassing one half of Car Clutch (Swan) and
former members of Soiled Mattress And The Springs
(Cohen, Schuette), creates a sound that bears little resemblance
to the musicians’ past efforts. But Silk Flowers have a clearly
traceable lineage in the softly spoken history of electronic music
and the darker recesses of pop past. The result? A percolating
grid of swelling, anthemic keyboards, analogue heaven,
tape echo, crackling, sometimes-dub-like rhythms, and
carefully counterbalanced vocals.

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