Something Like Nostalgia

Abbasi Brothers, The
Dynamophone Records
General | Aug 2008

Reviews

Ragnar of Ravensfjord
Reviewed 2008-08-23
Really nice beat chilled out ambience, “post-rock” and beats. Some use of feedback and noisy effect but mostly pretty calm. Not far off from Boards of Canada or Autechre at their mellowest. Overall, a very good album. The kind of thing that works well for studying or just chilling out.

((((1)))) Noisy intro then streamlines into a nice layered piece with a thin layer of distortion.
((((2)))) Floating, introspective, lots of repeating chords and sparse beats.
(((((3)))))) Very chill & pretty with big beats and strummy guitar.
((((4))))) Piano, shimmery guitar stuff, not far off from early 4AD stuff like Cocteau Twins or Dif Juz.
(((((5))))) Water then, slow, widely spaced notes and beats eventually gets a bit louder.
(((((6)))))) Trip-hop/ambience, with xylophone, surface noise. “Typical” sounding in a way but still very easy to get into.
((((7)))) Light percussive tone, piano and a few other layers. Glass-like tones as well in the mix.
(((8))) Movie-soundtrack feeling with a lot of out of place cyclical Asian tones via modern technology.
((((9))) Hazy, minimal but a little TOO repetitive.
(((10))) Samples of kids in a playground, acoustic guitar. Too many loose parts and not a whole.
(((11))) Insectoid electronics, church bell tempo and a few plinky piano parts. Decent but recycles some of the earlier ideas too much.
((((12)))) Focused on big beats & guitar sound, fairly common post-rock sound but pretty infectious.
(((13))) Spacious beats and random electronics and guitar chords moving in & out.
((((14)))) Sparse, cyclical, repeating chords all of which tends to make a good blend of sound.
(((((15))))) Static and slightly distorted guitar and piano wavering to and fro. Nice stuff.

Recent airplay

Clouds Are Sleeping
Brownian MotionOct 01, 2008
Approaching The End
A2ZSep 26, 2008
Kompa
Time TravelerSep 16, 2008
Stacy's Day Parade
Brownian MotionSep 10, 2008
Kompa
Time TravelerSep 09, 2008
Stacy's Day Parade
Mmmm...Tastes Like CandySep 07, 2008

Charting

2008-08-31 — 2008-11-02
Week EndingAirplays
Oct 5 1
Sep 28 1
Sep 21 1
Sep 14 3
Sep 7 3

Track listing

1. Stacy's Day Parade
2. Kompa
3. Something Like Nostalgia
4. Camera Flashes Blue
5. The Way Of The Wanderer
6. Dreams Of The Graffiti Artist
7. The Social Evening (In 1992)
8. Mr. Boe
9. A Long Weekend
10. In A Field
11. Playtime In Spacetime
12. Approaching The End
13. Fragments Of Memories As A Child
14. Reprise
15. Clouds Are Sleeping