Description:	7" on Static Caravan - free badges!
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Indie Dance
	Label:	Static Caravan
	Price:	£1.99
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Theres a new (its definitely new right?) 7" on Static Caravan called 'Inverted Island' by something called Obfusc.Oh come on guys who is going to remember that name. you'll never get on Top of the Pops. Thankfully the music is a rather wonderful rhodes piano led dubby electronica which recalls such past luminaries such as Plone, Mercury Program, Icebreaker and Tortoise. The B side is more of the same -beautiful sparkly melodies, decending chord progressions - somewhere between instrumental post rock, and your more melodic end of Squarepusher. Glacial guitars mixed with Reich-esque rhythmic electronics. Not breaking any particular new ground but who cares when the music is this lovely.

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What their label says...

Consider the visual as well as the aural: often the best and most creative musicians think in pictures as well as in sounds; a peculiar synaesthesia, but it usually proves that two senses combined are better than one. Joseph X Burke is a graphic designer and photographer, as well as operating under the name Obfusc. And it’s from Burke that we’ve received these two remarkable tracks which make up Inverted Island – ten minutes of stately electronica from the Brooklyn based adventurer, which are pieced together with immaculate precision like a photographic portrait, with each of the disparate elements brought into sharper focus. After a handful of sought-after, out-of-print releases, this is Obfusc’s first outing for Static Caravan and it finds him in sumptuously melodic mood, merging bubbling electronics and skittering rhythms with field recordings, lilting and melancholy and with hints of both Boards of Canada and Inch-time. The gliding coda to title track Inverted Island could be Low-Life era New Order throwing shiny pebbles in glass houses; its ringing Sumner-ish guitar part ebbing and flowing as the delicate pulse at the heart of the composition softens, before fading to a hushed climax. Beautifully slow-building, Oceanic Glow is shimmering and electrifying in equal measure, subtle and understated but with an urgent rhythm and a plangent guitar melody which is eerily atmospheric and at times recalls Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden. As the svelte, willowy sounds drift and dart, there’s a quiet warmth underpinning both of these tracks, conjuring marvellously vivid images from their sparse, spectral constructs, and their gripping intensity never dissipates. For fans of Inch-time, Dollboy and Robin Saville but also Boards (of course); Claro Intelecto and Peter Broderick