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Loud Like Nature
[Mute/Labels]
Following the excellent "Add Insult To Injury" in 2000, "Loud Like Nature" is the fourth album of Add N To (X), this title being as well the title of an installation the band exposed last year at the Printemps de Bourges. Recorded in one year by Barry Smith, Ann Shenton and Steve Claydon between London, New York and Sheffield, this album benefits from the guest appearances of Richard Hawley (Pulp's guitarist), Rowan Oliver (Goldfrapp) and the legendary Californian producer Kim Fowley who sings (or rather speaks) on the amazing track Invasion of the Polaroid People. In this album, the English band shows once again how well they master their subject with an incredible and clever alchemy of melodies, chaotic rhythms and explosive sounds ranging from experimental music to old rock, pop, punk and electro. From the formidable single Take Me to Your Leader to the very IDM synthecisered PP Machine and the crazy Sheez Mine and Large Number, the new album of these little geniuses can be listened at again and again, it will endlessly turn your head.
Renaud Martin |
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