http://www.discogs.com/Jello-Voile/release/43958
THIS ALBUM IS FANTASTIC AND AN ABSOLUTE STEAL ON DISCOGS GO AND BUY IT NOW OR ELSE!
ehem... sorry about that.. I don't usually do shameless plugging but being a Die Hard Fitton-fan couldn't resist. But seriously.. this guy deserves the purchase. His music is immense and wonderful, thick, dark, lush and at the best of times peerless. I could have reviewed any of his albums and was VERY close to picking Gnayse (which is not much short of a masterpiece in the truest sense despite the word getting more use than a Glasto portaloo these days). So why this one despite it's slight flaws compared to the self (jokily) titled works?...
Firstly a little bit about myself and why this Blog has seemingly lied dormant to the 3 people that regularly check it, most of whom probably don't need to read this anyway. Recently just finished writing a monster thesis for a masters in Syn-Bio which has easily swallowed up all of my spare writing time. Now out of the way I hope to have the blog back up and running to semi-regular updates... and especially more crazy cards, as before.. thanks to anyone that had noticed the missing updates. :)
That's not easy to answer, musically through all his albums there is a clear progression in his style and only ever maturing onto something better (IMHO). Whist soup and early works back on the AI days are wonderful, they do feel a little cartoony now when compared to a similar plundered sound put out by Carbon based Lifeforms, to me it's nice that he kept the inherent musical ability that he possessed from his early works and made them darker into a truly subverted-surly-tea-time-for-the-soul-through-the twillight-zone. Being on a separate label has offered him a chance with this moniker to put the styles gained from each album onto one separate piece of wax.. and then funk it up a bit and then add some. Stylistically it's probably more akin to Gnayse.. but non-continuous and far happier than is the former desolate suicide-trip. Tracks like Shinoque hark straight to Fyuti and could have easily been a lost B-side but with better lyrics by (DB) and bringing in some of the funk elements of Fittons earliest names (Brahma). Lyrically soul searching... as with much of his music. Sometimes he just went straight ahead an nicked one of his bola sounds from fyuti and re-worked it (Pi-Knipple), bit lazy... but great nonetheless.
If not aquainted with this style of electronica (a swirly autechre-esque drum beat) it may sound quite alien and cold untill you "Get-it". This album is a great introduction to the true depth of feeling and wonder that this genre can contain... It never keeps still, but despite being repetitive... never gets boring. A great example of this is pequill, neph and vamillaglade, with gentle organic piano lines to a lifeless relentless space beat somehow each adding to the other. A few great ambient autechre moments such as ephemex/neph , thrown in to keep the GES-Crew happy. Many of the tracks feel quite futuristic, such as the closer conokut (yes the names are always generally word plays) helped in part by the noisy buzzy beeps and whistles that permeate the drum track. It's nice to see his style combined with Tegwen's vocals for O'Verb (not often added in this type of electronica unless Bjork had a spare afternoon (oops, lilith)) not exactly sure what it's all going on about... some sort of relationship-gone-sour story? but it works nonetheless. Chamchimzee is probably the most pop-friendly bass-alicious danceable track on the album and showed the funk style he would progress into the EXCELLENT Kroungrine.
Overall, it's not a happy stroll in the park album, but it was never going to be. It could be seen as a more up-beat socially adjusted brother of Gnayse, who would currently be on his 6th can of tennents by lunch. Dramatic Movie music? Certainly!
Just pray that SKAM puts out his next album soon.. it's been rumoured to be in production from various Fitton news boxes such as soundcloud...
:Pequill:
:Pi-Knipple:
:o'Verb:
Mist at the end of Worthing pier...
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