Title: Cute Melody Window Down
Artist: 96 Back
Label: Local Action
Cat Number: LOCLP024
Genre: IDM/Electronica??
1: Lounge ll
2: Wrong Warp
3: When U Stop
4: Cute Melody Window Down
5: Lovers Rock
6: Goth Stuff
7: Get Running
8: Flow Spam
9: High & Tired
10: Fresh Face
96 Back’s latest long player is, in fact, a random collection of cute melodies in the best possible context. ‘When U Stop’ made me think of Prince, and that’s before I’d noticed the “U” in the title. And, like its predecessor ‘Wrong Warp’, it changes identity half way through, becoming a completely different entity. The title track has a quirky, vaguely Celtic refrain that manages to stay the course and after this, the tunes start to open up, stretching out a little, with the exception of the transient ‘Get Running’. The album, in spite of its obvious synthetic condition, lives and breathes as a biological entity. It feels alive and imbued with its own life force. ‘High & Tired’ is one of those instances when it jumps off the psychiatrist’s couch and starts dancing around the room, another instance being ‘Lover’s Rock’. The tonal variety shifts from one composition to the next, cloaked all the while in a hazy half-light of optimism, the scope of which extends to the entire organism encompassing it. When I listen to this collection, my minds eye has me within a building that contains many rooms, each one a house for some abstract activity caught up in its own work. Something that is amplified by a pervasive sense of whimsy and allegory and soundtracks the Mr Dick that we all have within us.
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