Music has always been a great source for the rose tinted glasses and the latest on Central Processing Unit got the sentimental juices flowing something serious.
I’m a fierce nostalgic man. Irish sense of “fierce” there, substitute “very” if ya like; trying to get across that I’m not some wild man harking for the days of the cave or something. Anyway, I’d chalk down said nostalgia to my approaching thirtieth birthday but I’ve always been one to reminisce in one way or another. Even as a teenager I was told I was nostalgic. “You’re fierce nostalgic altogether Geoghegan,” same use of fierce you might note there. Music has always been a great source for the rose tinted glasses and the latest on Central Processing Unit got the sentimental juices flowing something serious.
Carbo Flex. Trifolium. This new name is turning back the clock. Steady 4/4 beats, forget about it. Welcome back to crunched through and glitched up percussion. Machines are the focus for the drums but its sweet stings and soulful soundscapes underlying the shattered snares. “Amme Dot” sounds like Richard Devine was behind some of the programming, or his contribution to the Lily of the Valley compilation with the intro. Stumbling rhythm staggers, supported by light drenched bars. The EP has that broken beat scraped circuit board feel to it, wires cross and crisscross to create a fractured, yet solid, audio patchwork. “Flirty Fox” follows with those same piercing patterns, static and fuzz holding up saintly strings; a juxtapose of technological elegance and hyperactivity. The title piece closes and continues where the predecessors left off. Melodies once again soar, leaden clatter keeping the track tethered to its Electronica roots.
I started listening to electronics at the tender age of fourteen, and Carbo Flex is what I listened to. Well, not actually Carbo Flex but his ancestors from Musik Aus Strom, Merck, Schematic and Toytronic. It seems strange now how totally regressive everyone (me included) has gotten, how Electronica and its computer beaten complexity has been relegated for much simpler music structures. Trifolium is a reminder of how great the genre of electronica can be and reminds us, myself especially, of just how special those sounds of the early 2000s were, and still are. But who knows, that could always be the nostalgia talking.
Trifolium is available on Central Processing Unit.
