BIBIO - Vignetting The Compost
Friday, February 27, 2009 at 05:31PM
soundscapes in Electronic, Folk/Singer-songwriter

Another reminder from Stephen Wilkinson that just because it's electronic doesn't mean it has to be cold and clean. Instead, it seems he's managed to capture exactly what we were all hoping to produce with those hours of bedroom four-track experimentation--Fahey 101 guitar moves and murky vocals ornamented by swirling backwards sounds, all with the wobble of a cassette auto-reversed a few too many times. Dictaphone recordings of bird song and creek water add to the film strip soundtrack vibe and keep the mossy environments of the album's more ambient moments green, even when things enter full-on Penguin Cafe mode on tracks like "Weekend Wildfire".

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