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• Now living in Malmö, Sweden, ex-Bristolian Brewster (formally known as Mole Harness) has crystallised a strange and beautiful otherworldliness into his fourth album. Through tense, atmospheric sound design, scalpel-sharp digital processing and cascading percussion, there’s an unhurried wonderment that silvers all surfaces. Breaking waves, broken drum machines, white noise and running water build shifting soundscapes – enriched with woozy melody, intricate acoustic guitar and the voices of an Iranian puppeteer, an Albanian opera diva and a trio of Bristol’s more interesting scenesters: Men Diamler booms portentously in Swedish, Gravenhurst’s Nick Talbot adds dreamy Postal Service vocals and Suzi ‘You and the Atom Bomb’ Gage signs off with a hazy lullaby. A prickly, protean peach. (Mike White)
Copyright Mike White 2011
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THE BIG GIG
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Gary Numan
Mike White muses on the missing link between Kraftwerk and NIN. The same year as ‘Alien’, three years before ‘Blade Runner’, awkward, acne-ridden 21-year-old Gary Webb wrote a song called ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?’. It sounded…23.04.2012 READ MORE


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