| Textual / Hindsight Sunglasses |
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| Album: | Hindsight Sunglasses | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Textual | Added: | Feb 2005 | |
| Label: | Stiff Slack Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-02-20 | Pull Date: | 2005-04-24 | Charts: | RPM/Electronica, Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Apr 24 | Apr 17 | Apr 10 | Apr 3 | Mar 27 | Mar 20 | Mar 13 | Mar 6 |
| Airplays: | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 07, 2010: | lost and found Welcome to Narita | 4. | May 25, 2006: | The Sad Men's Club Dirty South Still Life | |
| 2. | Oct 08, 2008: | Orangeasm Welcome to Narita | 5. | Feb 19, 2006: | Dancing in Outer Space Runnin Laps Around Your Life | |
| 3. | Apr 23, 2007: | Kid For Today Gone As Quick As It Came | 6. | Apr 24, 2005: | Dancing in Outerspace Welcome to Narita |
| Album Review |
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| Captain Dee Reviewed 2005-02-17 | ||
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Textual is the electronica side project of David LeBleu, one of the guys in excellent post-rock band Mercury Program. This is a Japan-only release. Gorgeous glitch-hop beats with shimmering melodies and delicate “post-rock” sensibilities. Imagine Prefuse 73, Album Leaf, and Arovane fusing their musical DNA in the digital depths of Tokyo (much of the album has a “Japanese” aesthetic I can’t quite explain). Insanely infectious stuff. Definitely one of the stronger, more surprising electronica releases of 2004. Lovely! Highly recommended, for both electronica and post-rock fans alike. Don’t sleep!! Favorite tracks: 3, 5, 8 - Captain Dee, Feb. 2005 *1. Lovely ambience with cool stuttering clicks and rhythmic melody. Strong “Eastern” aesthetic. (2:30) *2. Echoing, disarrayed piano riff in the back, scampering electronics, lazy day melody, tight rolling beat. Ends in ambient strings loop. Music for carefree Saturdays? (3:36) **3. Soothing piano, then soaring & shimmering chime melody, underlying ambience, and dope head-nodding beat. Lovely! (4:30) 4. Messy sequence of tweaked electronic notes. No beat. (1:27) **5. Warped “rewind motion” melody. Really fucking cool! (2:26) *6. Clicking, wind chimes, warm electronic pulses, crystalline beauty, deliberate pace. Full beat is added later. I love the melody that develops at the end. (8:37) *7. Fast smushed beat, ethereal melody and ambience. (2:11) ***8. Dirty, hard-hitting hip-hop beat, sparkling layers of chimes and bass. Muddled field recordings at beginning and end. Imagine that you’re in a cyberpunk novel and you just arrived in Neo-Tokyo. TIGHT!! (3:40) 9. More subdued, slightly melancholic (or nostalgic?) vibe. Slow beat. (5:24) *10. Silly background, addictive glitch-hop beat, cheerful melodies, sunny ambience. (2:32) *11. Short interlude. Interesting “half-beat,” cute melody. (1:02) 12. Mechanical beat evolves over quiet, sustained chord. (3:17) 13. Post-rock song gone a little haywire. Dreamy guitars, quiet ambience. (5:13) 14. Uptempo glitchy beats with happy music box-ish melody. (1:56) 15. Filtered, cut-up piano chords. Bizarre. No beat. (2:01) *16. Celebratory melody, solid beat, beeps, deep bass. String quartet riff and nature samples fade in at end. (3:35) 17. Extremely deep, amorphous, frozen ambience. (5:05) | ||
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