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True to previous form, Kieran Hebden, Ademn Ilhan and Sam Jeffers' fourth album, Happiness, avoids all the pitfalls of defying convention. Fridge should be a very acquired taste. Undeniably abstract, in lesser hands their loose collages of off kilter percussion, ancient acoustic instruments and clinical sythns and samples, would be meandering leftfield nonsense, self-indulgent experimentation and totally inaccessible. But Happiness delivers nine tracks that are more touching than mere music. With Oriental hand chimes, delicate xylophone melodies, hypnotic bass loops and swathes of liquid synths, the incredibly sensual likes of &
True to previous form, Kieran Hebden, Ademn Ilhan and Sam Jeffers' fourth album, Happiness, avoids all the pitfalls of defying convention. Fridge should be a very acquired taste. Undeniably abstract, in lesser hands their loose collages of off kilter percussion, ancient acoustic instruments and clinical sythns and samples, would be meandering leftfield nonsense, self-indulgent experimentation and totally inaccessible. But Happiness delivers nine tracks that are more touching than mere music. With Oriental hand chimes, delicate xylophone melodies, hypnotic bass loops and swathes of liquid synths, the incredibly sensual likes of "Cut-Up Piano And Xylophone" and "Drum Machines And Glockenspiels" stir the emotions to provoke a sense of comfort, security and enormous well-being. Literally, this is the sound of Happiness. Even the guitar feedback on "Tone Guitar and DrumNoise" sounds graceful. And while an out-of-time tambourine, tuneless trombone and badly played accordion ("Melodica and Trombone") make for a curious listen, there's nothing arty or pretentious about it--the accordion playing isn't making an artistic statement, it's just bad. Leftfield it may be, but Happiness is about beautiful and emotive sounds, not being clever. --Dan Gennoe
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Manufacturer: Text
Release date: 24 September 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0666017026220 UPC: 666017026220
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