Calling this debut album by Iceland's Borko "off the wall" doesn't do it justice. Borko does his best to employ the kitchen sink mentality, weaving in dozens of influences, instruments and sounds to create one of the year's truly unique records. I suppose Mum would be the closest comparison here (and a couple tracks are right out of their playbook), but Borko is so much more unwieldy, at times channeling Freescha, Plone, Junior Boys, and even some more traditional indie rock sounds as well as their Icelanders . I'm probably making the record sound extremely scatterbrained, but that's precisely its appeal, and the finished product certainly sounds like a tight knit album despite its compositional incongruity. A real treat from Iceland, the island which has crafted a sound all its own.

Style: Indielectronic, Post Rock

RIYL: Jaga Jazzist, Mum

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2008  Borko  Celebrating Life  Indielectronic  Jaga Jazzist  Morr Music  Mum  Post Rock  onecaseman 

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