An original, multi-textured, and richly layered electronic album that deserves far wider recognition. Showcasing top-tier electronic craftsmanship, it’s intensely stylish, vividly imaginative, and brilliantly creative—true to the fertile and uncompromising spirit of Lo Recordings.
A musically advanced trip
Lo Recordings is a UK-based which breaks out the frontiers of electronic music, constantly promoting innovation and style coming from a large spectrum of musical fields and sub-genres. With Barb and Feather they welcome the experimental and multifaceted electronic power trio Red Snapper, well known by followers of referential adventurous IDM, glitch, acid house and post-techno music produced by Warp Records. This project, which consists of Ali Friend (double bass), Richard Thair (drums), and David Ayers (guitar), also produced several albums for Lo Recordings throughout the years. Based in London, the project has developed a distinctive hybrid of styles music which has gained a major reputation—now considered essential and foundational in the electronic art community.
This album features the presence of multifaceted instrumentalist/keyboardist David Harrow. I must confess that I’ve listened Barb and Feather with great interest as it pushed me out of a certain comfort-zone in terms of musical experience. A meticulously crafted yet brilliantly complex album that blends the timeless allure of glam rock fantasies—think Roxy Music and The Psychedelic Furs—with dubstep-infused electronic grooves and soulful, playful improvisations, all delivered with flawless execution. This album is an instantaneously captivating and a refreshing mind trip that leads the listener in a compositive, dynamic, propulsive, and luminous dancing psychedelic voyage. It successes to deliver a hybrid of styles between Autechre, Stereolab, everything connected to high-quality IDM but also breathtaking soul jazz and acid jazz (Ballistic Brothers, Sofa Surfers) and funky rhythms.
An original, multi-textured, and richly layered electronic album that deserves far wider recognition. Showcasing top-tier electronic craftsmanship, it’s intensely stylish, vividly imaginative, and brilliantly creative—true to the fertile and uncompromising spirit of Lo Recordings A musically advanced trip that will appeal to avid fans of trip-hop, electronic jazz, and retro-minimal pop.
Barb and Feather is available on Lo Recordings. [Bandcamp]
