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• 70s footballers, 80s trainers, 90s indie-electronica – Tim Wrathall must be wracked with nostalgia. ‘The Bunker’ storms in like Vangelis via the bedsit techno of Underworld, propelled to its conclusion by racing industrial snares. ‘The Pursuit Of Cruyff’ – with its happy-sad synths and relentlessly bouncy bassline – is reminiscent of a night in circa 1993 with a tattered Panini sticker album and MTV’s ‘Party Zone’ for company. As anachronistic as this must all sound, ‘Herzogenaurach’ is a likeable, idiosyncratic record, whose melodic excesses are offset by low-key vocals and lashings of high concept. People don’t really make music like this any more, and maybe they should. Free to download, too. Keep it up. (Adam Burrows)
www.bloodredsounds.blogspot.com Copyright Adam Burrows 2011
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