“Judith’s electronic songwriting feeds off of a rich repertoire of whimsical musical figures and fancy tousled sounds. But in its perfect aesthetical balance it resembles imaginatively superposed calligraphies in which every single sweep and stroke, each twist and turn, on the different layers of its notation lead to an inspiring, meaningful expression.”
“”Queue For Love” (Populous’ second album) is a triumph of the DIY ethos. After all, Andrea Mangia is just a kid with a computer and an incorruptible taste. “Queue For Love” isn’t pure sampledelia, though. A lot of the guitars, e-bows and glockenspiels on this album have been recorded in the bathroom of Populous’ tiny student apartment…and singer Matilde…recorded her gorgeous vocals for “Bunco” and “Clap Like Breeze”, turning the music into an amalgam of Broadcast, The Cocteau Twins and a crazy-in-love DJ Shadow.”
Psapp is the collective experiences of Carim Clasmann and Galia Durant, a London based pair of anoraks whose mutual obsession with odd noises and heart-prodding pop has resulted in a sound that sneakily slips between genres, dabbling with electronica, and glitchy folk and jazz.
“The idea was to produce new unique guitar-based songs and sounds that normal guitar bands do not or can not produce, because they are captured in band-processes or they only just ‘play’ guitar. After the first Guitar album I decided to open the definition of ‘guitar’ and also work on all kind of instruments that have strings.”
…Emotion - real feeling - is an essential ingredient of Efterklang’s music. The sum effect borders on the sacred. The music in its patience and sense of perseverance imparts a sense of sympathetic healing. It is really difficult not to be enchanted.
