Genre : Electronica,Rock,Shoegaze,Hip-HopMyspace
Tracklist
1. New To A Few
2. I Heart Drum Machines
3. Well Water Black - Alias & Why
4. Oakland Morning
5. MG Jack
6. Prelude To A Death Watch
7. Death watch
8. Autumnal Ego
9. Place Of No More Choices
10. Resurgam
11. Weathering - Alias & One AM Radio
12. Justamachine
13. Oakland In The Rearview
Anticon veteran Brendon Whitney returns for his first proper solo album since 2003's Muted, delivering a mightily impressive line-up of instrumentals, and even a couple of vocally-enhanced collaborations (with long-term labelmate Yoni Wolf of Why? and One AM Radio). As ever, Whitney's starting point for his music is firmly rooted in hip hop, but there's a freakishly wide range of influences feeding into all this. Tracks like 'Death Watch' and 'Resurgam' enter into an almost Ulrich Schnauss-like soundscape of textured electronic pop, all backed up by suitably hefty beat crafting and an underlying air of melody. Meanwhile, the track with Yoni Wolf stirs up a combination of chugging guitars, Four Tet-style drum fills and a hip hop-to-indie ratio that's not dissimilar to Whitney's collaboration with Markus Acher, 'Unseen Sights'. It's great to hear Alias back in action, and he's in fine voice on this new album - which quite appropriately for a 'comeback' record of sorts, takes its name from the Latin for "I Shall Rise Again".
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