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Image Bibio, Ambivalence Avenue [Warp, 2009]

Just a few months after a fantastic album and EP for Mush, Stephen Wilkinson releases his first album with Warp. Ambivalence Avenue, unlike previous Bibio releases, does not stick to the formula of acoustronic folk. Here Bibio mixes vocal folk with a lot of other styles of music. Those of you who have been following Mr. Wilkinson closely might have known he's had more up his sleeve, with his more experimental DJ sets and his instrumental hip-hop experiments as Duckular. It seems rather than devoting time to that alias he is attempting to weave that sound into Bibio, and thankfully, he does it with great success. When I first heard Bibio was going this direction with his debut for Warp, I worried the album might sound too disjointed, but somehow he's pulled it off, going from folk to funk to hip-hop to indie rock with ease. "Jealous Of Roses" for one example will immediately turn heads, with its 70s funk and vocals. It's completely out of left field for Bibio or even Warp, but it works. Bibio's first three albums had already confirmed to me that he was one of this decade's musical prodigies; Ambivalence Avenue just shows that he's no longer abiding by any self-imposed constraints. A fantastic signing and record for Warp.

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Techno
Image Few Nolder, New Folder [Planet Mu, 2009] Lithuanian producer Linas Strockis is a new style of producer. Coming from way north of any super-developed dance scene, his debut album picks bits and pieces of dance floor sounds from all over Europe and mixes them together. This is type of record you'd expect from Kompakt on their best days, not Planet Mu, a label not known for releasing dancefloor-ready material. Mu first release the "No Mo/Brenn" 12", and the A side m...
 
Instrumental Hip-Hop
Image Prefuse 73, The Forest Of Oversensitivity [Warp, 2009] Scott Herren, seemingly worried about keeping up his reputation as prolific after albums from three different aliases this year, has released a new 12" EP on Warp following up the return to form that was Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian. This EP is simply killer. "Overkill Choir" is a Vocal Studies throwback with vocoded vocals and a much slower tempo than a lot of his recent work. The vocals surf over the too cool f...
 
Indie Pop
Image Cortney Tidwell, Boys [City Slang, 2009] Cortney Tidwell returns with her second album after the fantastic Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up. Tidwell comes from Nashville, Tennessee, so her music is based in a country tradition, but modernized with electronics and influences from loads of other genres. Listening to her makes me think of what country could be if the genre innovated and experimented like artists in other genres have. Because of the risk-taking and overall music ...
 
Dubstep
Image FaltyDL, Love Is A Liability [Planet Mu, 2009] Planet Mu certainly has their ear to the streets. Across the globe this small label is signing up some of the most unique acts in electronic music. FaltyDL is the latest, a New York producer mixing in UK Garage, dubstep, acid, IDM, and a host of other influences for one of the most energetic albums so far this year. Vocal samples reminiscient of Burial populate the entire disc, with more upbeat tempo and acid lines and IDMish melodies mi...
 

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