Soundtrack to your life

The opening title track immediately explodes into a barrage of glitchy sound patterns, beats, samples and all manner of strange noises all coalescing around a rising synth crescendo. There is certainly a lot of stuff going on here, it really should not work but the effect of this sensory sound assault is thrilling.
The pace drops for the rest of the EP after the title tracks frantic start and both the dubby ‘You Could Be Forgiven For That’ and ‘Twitch (It Grows and Grows)’ are more laidback, sultry tracks but still no less compelling. ‘Mimetic’ closes the EP in a similarly subtle style but its low slung groove and soulful house beats are a glorious way to finish… thisisfakediy

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Phillips and O’Dair should feel proud that they have created an album that will have no sound-alike peers in 2010. It might well never have any, although parallels are apparent at intermittent junctures – old trip hop, the found-sound eeriness of under-the-radar Dorset brothers Reigns, the BioShock videogame soundtrack, Hot Chip with a limp, creaky graveyard gates. But without too many obvious reference points it’s a puzzling concoction. Perhaps Phillips can call in a few favours and commission the film needed to bring this unique work to life… bbc

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