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Ljudbiden & Piloten - One Hundred Fifty-five [Nosordo - 2008]

One Hundred Fifty-five’s grotesque cut-up collage cover and artwork booklet suggests this is going to be either plunderphonics territory or surreal cut up tapestry of sound akin to early NWW- but instead we get a collection of often melodic instrumental tracks with a slight back bone of sampled/ cut-up matter.

The tracks mix together melodic indie rock, folk, lite jazz, wavering emotional strained piano passages, earthy & emotional electronica, slight ambience and the odd quirky turn.  It’s charming, tuneful and often very emotional and human, with a nice balance of instrumental colours such as acoustic & electric guitard, wondering bass lines, pianos, electronics, trumpet, tablar,ect. With the odd and subtle placed sampled element such as the sound of an apple bite woven into a songs rhythmic patten. I guess you’d compare it to a more bearable & less twee version of some of the Morr labels work or possible a less quirky Mum, or vocal less & more controlled Animal collective at their more folky end of things.

An album full of memorable and emotional charged instrumental tracks, that’s sadly rather misleading because of it’s artwork- you certainly can’t judge this book by its cover.

Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5

Roger Batty
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