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"Fort Lauderdale return with their third, and most ambitious album yet. And mark our words, this isn't Time is of the Essence part deux. Those of you who have checked out the two singles to be pulled from this album so far, 'Rock'n'Roll', and 'The Chilling Place' will have some idea of what to expect: think T-Rex meets Super Furry Animals. But even those singles won't prepare you for the sheer chutzpah on display. Imagine if Ray Davies instead of Jack Nicholson had taken over as caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Then you might get some idea of the eccentric genius that lurks within Pretty Monster. From lo-fi ('Insane Overdrive') to neo-classical torch ballads ('Prey To The Stars') to jagged shards of psychedelic-pop ('As A Boy') to sleazy disco ('Sexy Creature') it spills over with classic pop songs whilst at the same time evoking the sense of two minds unravelling in spectacular surroundings. Fans of everyone from Roxy Music to Super Furry Animals to The Animals will be enchanted."
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MEMPH 034CD
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"A weird and wonderful combination of soaring vocals, drunken horns, bubbling synths and the greatest ever guitar solo committed to tape...honest, it is. The Chilling Place comes backed with two new songs, the first, the lovely Velvets-esque 'She's in Bloom', a nostalgic glance at love past, whilst the second is a perfectly poised cover version of electronic legend Bruce Hook's 'Incantation' with Toby casually tossing off a perfect frippertronic impression on his trusted Gibson. The most coherent example yet of genre-bending schizadelica' Sleazenation."
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MEMPH 020CD
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"From the label that brought us Blue States and Broadway Project, a new EP of luxurious folk psychedelia from Fort Lauderdale (aka Black Neon and The Squire Of Somerton), Memphis Industries' other major artist. This EP features the main track from the album Flux 1912 plus two new tracks, 'Obbey Osse,' an homage to a Cornish fertility ritual involving a man dressed as a horse and local womenfolk, and 'Beauty,' subtly perverted and degenerate. File next to: Jean Jacques Perry meets The Wicker Man."
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MEMPH 017CD
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"In it's luxurious folk psychedelia and behind-the-drapes decadence redolent of 19th century leisured classes, the album recalls both the crack'd genius of Syd Barrett and the utopian visions of HG Wells, the album is best described as downtempo space funk meets psychedelic electronica. Check out the backwards guitar styled tea dance of 'Flux 1912' and the Bowie-on-a-bontempi that is 'Fixing Spaceships'. 'A twisted journey into the depths of the mind that takes in space-funk and electronica making it infinitely listenable.'"
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WISE 04CD
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"Well meaning post-BOC album (I'm sorry but there's just no way...) from these lounge/spy-jazz obsessed twits, their first release on London's (previously) groundbreaking Worm Interface label. Some nice moments of real-time guitar interplay come in here & there (and I'm not talking about that shred solo at the outro of 'The Kaleidoscope Man', which rivals -- if not out-does -- even the most misguided examples in the genres.mp3.com/music/electronic directory, right up to the moronic voice over), which when coupled with the genre's trademark mellow synth squiggle & odd-meter drum bits adds up to slightly more than a hill of beans and a whole lot less than a Dunderhead record. Life=1, IDM=0." --Hrvatski
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