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The best way to explain the concept behind this album comes from Dan Abrams (Fenton) himself, “I always enjoy the beginning and endings of pop songs. I wanted to know what would happen if I made an album out of just those moments.”
And Pup does just that, stretching out those floating, wandering endings – with each track bathed in shimmering, glistening, acoustic and electric guitars, welded together by the sound of treated synths.
Each track starts as a journey of sorts, delivering vapourous atmospheres, but little room is afforded for each piece to move beyond Abrams' self-enforced boundaries. However, the content
The best way to explain the concept behind this album comes from Dan Abrams (Fenton) himself, “I always enjoy the beginning and endings of pop songs. I wanted to know what would happen if I made an album out of just those moments.”
And Pup does just that, stretching out those floating, wandering endings – with each track bathed in shimmering, glistening, acoustic and electric guitars, welded together by the sound of treated synths.
Each track starts as a journey of sorts, delivering vapourous atmospheres, but little room is afforded for each piece to move beyond Abrams' self-enforced boundaries. However, the content delivered within each track is usually enough, even if Pup occasionally fails to deliver the emotional paradise that it promises, and is occasionally repetitive.
However, certain tracks are blissfully relaxing – Many Blades Of Grass Ago is particularly good, with its gently looped guitar strains and environmental background. Elsewhere, it’s a mixture of less distinguished and quitely affecting tracks – the album often drifts pleasantly in the background, as hazily unfocused as its cover art implies.
Pup may feature too much guitar for synth lovers, and Fenton certainly doesn’t incorporate the often over-processed microscope glitch of many of today’s minimalist electronic composers. Therefore, it’s probably a viable alternative to what the modern-day ambient genre represents right now.
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Manufacturer: Plop
Release date: 24 June 2005
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