The Music Lobby - Music Recommendations for Enlightened Ears

Sunday
Aug 01st
Lost Password? Register
Admin
Home arrow Recommendations arrow Pollination, Inca Orange [Exponential, 2009]
Pollination, Inca Orange [Exponential, 2009] PDF Print E-mail
User Rating: / 3
PoorBest 
Written by onecaseman   
Monday, 14 September 2009

Image

Pollination is Albuquerque's Nick Noeding, Jr., a frequent collaborator of Yppah and one third of the Day of the Woman project (along with Yppah and Stenographer, watch for their debut next year). Inca Orange is a mix of skittering drum beats, shoegaze-inspired guitar, and analog synths, very much in the realm of Yppah's debut album, but Nick certainly carves out his own sound here. I feel a very tangible sense of churchbell cacophony from his use and abuse of tape loops, like Boards of Canada managed to execute perfectly in "Dawn Chorus", one their best tunes in my opinion. It's almost like the tape is always moving, but you're never certain if it's going backwards, forwards, or in some other direction. Something about the Southwest seems to be cultivating a scene of artists that are equally comfortable in front of a deck or a guitar and pedals, and their penchant to mix the two is creating some awesome music. I almost liken this burgeoning collective to the Artists' Valley collective of Bibio, Lone, and others out of the UK with their collisions of hip-hop, folk, and IDM. Inca Orange as an EP seems to only hint at what Pollination has in store for us later. If songs like "Kim" and "Some Sun" are any indication, it's a direction I want to keep hearing. Bonus remixes from Yppah, Stenographer, Zoomzip, and Rectangle make this practically an album's worth of material.

Style: Indielectronic

RIYL: Yppah, Loka

Download from Exponential  MySpace

Download: Kim

 


Comments (0)Add Comment

Write comment
quote
bold
italicize
underline
strike
url
image
quote
quote
smile
wink
laugh
grin
angry
sad
shocked
cool
tongue
kiss
cry
smaller | bigger

busy
Last Updated ( Monday, 14 September 2009 )
 
< Prev   Next >

Sponsored Links