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Describing themselves as "aggressive futurists" who find "harmony in building sites", Add N to(X) have a history of reclaiming seemingly redundant tin-pot electro-equipment and using it to create hard-hitting contemporary soundscapes. Loud Like Nature, their fourth album, is their best effort yet, and sees the three band members forging their own distinct sonic personalities. Barry 7, as befits a DJ, contributes the Teutonic dance of "Quantum Leap", the wild techno of "Lick a Battery" and the spacey lounge music of the "Walk On By"-sampling "Up the Punks". Steve Claydon
Describing themselves as "aggressive futurists" who find "harmony in building sites", Add N to(X) have a history of reclaiming seemingly redundant tin-pot electro-equipment and using it to create hard-hitting contemporary soundscapes. Loud Like Nature, their fourth album, is their best effort yet, and sees the three band members forging their own distinct sonic personalities. Barry 7, as befits a DJ, contributes the Teutonic dance of "Quantum Leap", the wild techno of "Lick a Battery" and the spacey lounge music of the "Walk On By"-sampling "Up the Punks". Steve Claydon is more of a rocker. His "Total All Out Water" is a Soft Cell-style glam stomp, "Sheez Mine" is like a raucous Fad Gadget, while "All Night Lazy" is a sleazy rock groove. Ann Shenton, meanwhile, is all over the place, delivering the minimal piano and strings of "Pink Light", the lo-fi Plastic Bertrand-ish pop of "-U Baby" and "Electric Village", a kind of freaky, squeaky "All Right Now". Yet though the individual influences are different, the approach is always the same--every style and genre approached is warped to the max, challenging the listener to find melody amidst the noise, the familiar amidst the downright strange. You'll find the search rewarding, and fun too. --Dominic Wills
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Manufacturer: Mute
Release date: 21 October 2002
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5016025612048
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