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Fridge, Happiness
Audio CD
Disk ID: 679591
Disk length: 59m 30s (9 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2000
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Melodica and Trombone | 6:01 |
| 2. Drum Machines and Glockenspiels | 13:18 |
| 3. Cut Up Piano and Xylophones | 2:38 |
| 4. Tone Guitar and Drum Noise | 4:43 |
| 5. Five Four Child Voice | 9:20 |
| 6. Smaple and Clicks | 2:56 |
| 7. Drum Bass Sonics and Edit | 7:26 |
| 8. Harmonics | 4:07 |
| 9. Long Singing | 8:56 |
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Review
This is the fourth album proper (discounting 1998's Sevens and Twelves) for the pioneering London-by-way-of-Putney post-rocktronic trio. Doing away for the most part with the sampled second-line beats and found textures prevalent on EPH, the etudes on Happiness work the band's collection of quasi-exotic instrumentation (kalimba, xylophone, and glockenspiel to name but three) through subtle digital reconstitution schemes, resulting in a far more intimate and inviting sound field. Cheeky song titles delineate the combinations: the blissed-out "Cut Up Piano and Xylophone" wisely works a reverse-skidding effect, unfortunately ending far before the listener can achieve the intended alpha-state; "Harmonics" strums open chords underneath an involved polyrhythmic pulse built out of sampled acoustic guitar picking; "Tone Guitar and Drum Noise," with its endlessly skidding percussion manages to hip-check Milford Graves and Augustus Pablo simultaneously (not an easy feat). The occasional detour (such as "Drums Bass Sonics and Edit") does little to destroy the reigning pastoral mood. Results overall are nothing short of gorgeous, the lengths gone to pierce a new angle through the rock-trio aegis ultimately pay off in a unique offering, contemporary and ages old. --Keith Fullerton Whitman
Other Versions
Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.
Tracks: 9, Disk length: 59m 32s (+0m 2s)
Tracks: 9, Disk length: 56m 36s (-3m 6s)
Tracks: 11 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 1h 13m 45s (+14m 15s)
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