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HERBERT - Scale
| PrefixMag | | Calling something a return to form usually feels like a backhanded compliment. It generally implies that an artist has somehow lost his way, that the quality of his output lowered enough to be considered a slump....full text |
| | CokeMachineGlow | | Scale: conflicted meta-title, a calendar manifesto, this year’s biggest understatement. Matthew Herbert’s work has always been about scale: the domestic, the body, big band, commercialism, your ass grooving....full text |
| | Guardian | | Sample wizard Matthew Herbert insists on gathering his own sounds rather than using those that already exist. His last album, Plat du Jour, was a comment on the evils of globalisation with all the sounds conjured from food and its packaging....full text |
| | CokeMachineGlow | | Joel Gibb: When I started the Hidden Cameras, there were no auditions... I just asked people I knew to play a gig, and that was sort of trying out different instruments and configurations in the band, you know? There have been changes, but the group right now works really well, and we're all pretty... [thinks word over carefully] stoked over this new record. We're going to be touring quite a bit....full text |
| | Jam! | | For nearly 30 years, when we heard the exclamation "Awoo," we would think Werewolves of London. Not anymore. Now we think Gay Church Folk-Popsters of Toronto. And we bet you will too, once you hear the title track from the third indie-pop masterpiece by Joel Gibb and the latest lineup of his Hidden Cameras collective....full text |
| | Harp Magazine | | I’d rather wallow in the mud of my own imagination, a-woo-oo,” sings Joel Gibb on the title track of Awoo, the Hidden Cameras’ fourth album. Amid tinkling xylophone, staccato keyboards, swooning strings and strumming acoustic guitars, Gibb joyfully proclaims his desire to dive into his imaginative id, which quickly leads him to his libido, and what he finds then becomes the text and subtext of the Toronto band’s self-proclaimed gay church folk music....full text |
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