Keep It Slow (Spkg)_音乐专辑
Keep It Slow (Spkg)
表演者: Low Motion Disco
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2008-06-24
唱片数: 1
出版者: Eskimo
条形码: 5414165018872
专辑简介
Dancing while sitting down is what Low Motion Disco, the Swiss duo recently signed to Eskimo is all about. The group is at the forefront of the so-called “nü” slo-mo groove scene that has been burgeoning in all corners of Europe in recent months—even though Bent and Lemon Jelly did it all first (and not that long ago) without anyone making much of a fuss. But in Low Motion Disco's case, the actual music could even be secondary here, considering how the band’s own name, album, and track titles aptly speak for themselves: 'Keep It Low' and 'Frantic Low Moment' come across as pure moments of self-referential bliss… and that’s before you press the play button.
Musically speaking, the content of the group's debut album is being compared to Lindstrom & Prins Thomas' work on Eskimo. But where the Norwegian space disco kings are boringly self-indulgent at times, Low Motion Disco keep everything placidly immediate. 'Intro,' for instance, is an obvious homage to The KLF’s seminal Chill Out, sheep noises and all, while 'Things Are Gonna Get Easier' is so lightheartedly MOR it wouldn’t sound out of place on Barbara Streisand & Barry Gibb's 1980 collaboration, Guilty. (That’s a good thing, by the way.) There are even hints of Cocteau Twins-like aerial guitar play on 'Love Knows Low,' which shows the duo’s varied influences and overall dedication to all things shoegaze. Only on 'People Come in Slowly' do LMD dare to increase—albeit very discreetly, mind you—the cadence, and this rare threat is the album’s stellar moment.
Considering the absence of one actual bona fide anthem and tracks that verge on the side of irritatingly lethargic ('The Low Murderer Is Out at Night'), Keep It Slow can’t really be considered the sub-sub-genre’s definitive album. In the meantime, Low Motion Disco’s pastoral noises, pulsating humming, dub-ish ambiences, and breezy samples should appeal to everyone that’d like their Hercules & Love Affair less flaming and their Pop Ambient more visceral.
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