| Bibio / Ambivalence Avenue |
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| Album: | Ambivalence Avenue | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Bibio | Added: | Jul 2009 | |
| Label: | Warp Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-11-22 | Pull Date: | 2010-01-24 |
| Week Ending: | Jan 24 | Jan 17 | Jan 10 | Jan 3 | Dec 13 | Dec 6 | Nov 29 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 31, 2022: | nearby galaxies Lovers' Carvings | 4. | Mar 08, 2018: | FMF Lovers' Carvings | |
| 2. | Apr 03, 2019: | nearby galaxies Lovers' Carvings | 5. | Apr 20, 2017: | night tapes #1 Lovers' Carvings | |
| 3. | Jan 08, 2019: | Magnetized Toner: With Guest DJ mc2 Ambivalence Avenue | 6. | Jun 12, 2015: | A Visit From Drum Jealous Of Roses |
| Album Review |
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| Trent Kay Reviewed 2009-11-15 | ||
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How to describe this? Electronic, but not electronica. Folk-influenced, but also soul-influenced. Chamber pop / bedroom pop, I guess. Lots of sampled noise and nature sounds (think: bubbles, water). Very weirdly, it’s Sunday afternoon chillout fare. It’s fuzzy. And spongy. And... pretty. And pretty British. Not Britpop British... like, tea and crumpets and countryside British. Not unlike Simon & Garfunkel. Or, I don’t know, Kings of Convenience? On the more recent side, you’ll probably like it if you liked Phoenix and the Antlers, though it sounds like neither. I like it, but what the hell? This is Bibio’s fourth record. He’s a British dude named Stephen Wilkinson. He studied “sonic arts” at Middlesex. No, really. try: 11-12, 1, 7, 9 no FCCs *1. soft opening. cool, spongy 3/4 beat. sounds almost etudey. lilty vocals. 2. up the funk! laid back. fuzzy wa-wa guitar and high-pitched male vox. 3. quick & cute. “ditty” is the word. bellsy guitar and s&g vocals. 4. starts with abrasive kid noise. lots of samples and hip-hoppy playbacks. 5. fade in ~7sec. pretty. slower waltz. light, indie vocals. could fade around 1:25 to end, or around :25 to end. either way, fade this sucker out. 6. pushy yet laid-back electroclash beat. delayed playbacks under ethereal bells. *7. a full 1:30 intro of straight-up fingerpicked waltzer guitar. the main tune is super cute! handclaps, shakers, claves, easy/quick chord changes, and soft-pedal vocals. 8. messy un-tempo twinkly guitar and almost overpowering harmonies. a little too much positive stimulus for me. *9. bright, sharp, tinny music box intro. vacuumy funk with delayed, cut-up hip-hop vocals, but minus the hip-hop sound. 10. pretty, sad, midtempo solo guitar. lots of audible scratching/sliding. thin vocals. beatlesy. simple. actually somewhat haunting. *11. play w/ track 12. it’s instrumental and awesome. starts with dark minor guitar ---> wet, crunchy beat. there’s a false ending -- you can cut it there (about :45 to end) if you please. otherwise, bleeds into ---> 12. weird clicking/buckle noise. heavy, scratches/skips. kind of forbidding and epic. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Ambivalence Avenue | 7. | Lovers' Carvings | |||
| 2. | Jealous Of Roses | 8. | Abrasion | |||
| 3. | All The Flowers | 9. | S'vive | |||
| 4. | Fire Ant | 10. | The Palm Of Your Wave | |||
| 5. | Haikuesque (When She Laughs) | 11. | Cry! Baby! | |||
| 6. | Sugarette | 12. | Dwrcan |