• LP + DL CODE
  • Digital


Hinge

  • Cat No: NC12009
  • Release: 2019-04-26

Format

Digital 1300 JPY

”大衆的”という意味合いでなく、実験音楽にもダンスミュージックにも属せぬその在りようが”ポップス”と括らせる。ブリストル〈NO CORNER〉が送り出す、パステルピンクに覚醒したアウトサイダー/スワンプポップ!先行してリリースされたシングル(incl. O$VMV$M & Broshuda remix)を収録した、ニューカマーE B Uによるデビューアルバム!

GIANT SWANやSPECTRESが参加する〈HOWLING OWL〉からリリースしているE B U。エフェクトでユガませた自身のヴォーカルと、不自然なテンポで進行するシンセサイザーの融合。一言で言えばサイケデリックなハードウェア・サウンド、しかしメルヘンと切なさに浸した旋律はパステルカラー。ラジフォニックなRAW質感に色付けられて加速する奇妙な世界観。こだわり抜いたジャケット含め、ホドロフスキーのサウンドトラックとも形容されているのも興味深い。200枚リミテッドプレス、お早めにどうぞ。 (Akie) (LP + DL CODEのコメントから参照)

Track List

16bit/44.1khz [wav/flac/aiff/alac/mp3]

'Celebrating otherness, E B U casts a universe of her own both sonically and visually. Defying any one genre, she refers to her distinct sound as ‘Swamp Pop’. Unnatural sounds and pitches exhale in melodic chants, ominous basslines resound and eerie loops fixate in this macabre ensemble. You are captive in her world. Moments of haunting clarity keep you wondering where she will take you next whilst strange narratives unfold. Her chameleonic visual display is charged with emotion, keeping you suspended in a state of flux as she orbits through the spectrum. Stimulated by human behaviour and existence she questions the very nature of being, and invites the audience to explore through her cathartic performance.'

To our ears, her sound captures elements of the radiophonic qualities by electronic pioneers such as Delia Derbyshire, through to unlikely melody and harmony akin to that of Ryuchi Sakamoto or Laurie Anderson.

Place this in a picturesque, weird & wonderful sphere, projected like an extra terrestrial, audio-visual soundtrack to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain, and you’re half way there.

Essentially though, her sound is a total world of it’s own.
Hinge, E B U's debut album, is an outer body experience that will conjure up memories you never had before, images you can't quite place but somehow relate to, and a sense of sweet disorientation as you slip into a whirlpool of shapeshifting melody, harmony and frequency.

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