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Arp - More
Label.........................: Supertown Smallsound
Genre.........................: Indie
StoreDate.....................: Sep-17-2013
Source........................: CDDA
Grabber.......................: Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode)
Encoding Scheme...............: Lame 3.98.4 V0 VBR Joint-Stereo
Size..........................: 78.29 MB
Total Playing Time............: 45:12
Release Notes:
It's been a while since Alexis Georgopoulos worked under his Arp
moniker, leaving three years trailing in the wake of his last
full-length album, The Soft Wave. He's worked in art and modern dance in
the interim, but Georgopoulos has clearly spent some time thinking about
how to retool this project as well. The Soft Wave was all balmy synth
textures and endlessly repeating figures, sometimes lightly prickled by
waves of bass and distorted guitar. Georgopoulos found his voice toward
the close of that record, forgoing his mostly instrumental work to
deliver a pitch-perfect pastiche of Brian Eno's 70s vocal work on "From
a Balcony Overlooking the Sea". Surprisingly, it's a thread he picks at
for the bulk of MORE, settling into a more song-oriented incarnation of
Arp that might cause people familiar with his older work to check the
package to make sure it's not some other band.
Where Georgopoulos has landed is somewhere in-between various strains of
the British art school tradition, where the mundane and the fantastic
are equally enthralling. It's part Roxy Music sci-fi fantasia, part Blur
down-the-chip-shop scruffiness. Georgopoulos is interested in glamour
for sure-- song titles here include "High-Heeled Clouds" and "A Tiger in
the Hall at Versailles"-- but it's a scruffy, vaudevillian form of it.
The sad, clangorous end to "Clouds" feels like a paean to actors who
couldn't quite make it, to singers who had a shot at the big time and
just fell short. It's heavy on pastiche, but very well done at times.
You won't hear a better piece of Eno worship than "Judy Nylon" this
year. Even the title is wonderfully Eno-esque. It's too bad Georgopoulos
waits until the closing track, "Persuasion", to get anywhere near the
same sense of pop euphoria again.
So there's a strong sense of someone not reaching particularly hard to
get beyond their influences, but even that takes on an appropriate hue
as the album progresses. MORE edges into the feel of low-rent theater at
times, where the makeup starts to run under the lights, where the
performer on stage is revealed to be a fraud. Georgopoulos does a blues
track and he calls it "(MORE) BLUES". He's emptied out pop and found a
bunch of dead ends, all circling back in on themselves. Still, this
isn't an exercise in the futility of writing this stuff in 2013; it's
more like a light, cheerful prod at the parameters of pop. Along the way
we get plenty of ambient interludes, hints of Brill Building pop, a dose
of Beatles-y goodness. There's a sense Georgopoulos isn't sure what Arp
should be, allowing him to resist being shaped, packaged, and neatly
filed away.
In among all the switching up there's a centerpiece to all of this, if
one can exist in such a baffling, un-centered piece, titled "Gravity
(For Charlemagne Palestine)", which is one-part Steve Reich repetitive
build, one-part Spiritualized-style astral gazing. Naturally, going from
that to the cheeky end-of-seaside-pier tracks takes some adjusting. But
MORE is an album that takes some time to settle in, to really get to
grips with all its diverse tendencies. Already it feels like it could
become a weightier work over time if Georgopoulos leaves all this behind
and moves on elsewhere, causing this album to perpetually spin in its
own odd orbit. It's mostly a delight to return to, with its misshapen
ways sometimes working toward a bigger picture until Georgopoulos
flushes it all down the u-bend via another baffling turn. Here he's got
a musical outlet that's not defined at all, and that's a strange and
occasionally beautiful thing.
-- 7.0/10 Pitchfork
Tracklisting
01. High-Heeled Couds 4:05
02. Judy Nylon 3:33
03. A Tiger In The Hall At Versailles 5:56
04. E2 Octopus 0:43
05. Light + Sound 5:38
06. 17th Daydream 2:03
07. Gravity (For Charlemagne Palestine) 6:21
08. Invisible Signals 0:28
09. More (Blues) 4:59
10. V2 Slight Return 0:58
11. DaphnΘ & Chl÷e 4:29
12. Persuasion 5:59
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Arp - More
Label.........................: Supertown Smallsound
Genre.........................: Indie
StoreDate.....................: Sep-17-2013
Source........................: CDDA
Grabber.......................: Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode)
Encoding Scheme...............: Lame 3.98.4 V0 VBR Joint-Stereo
Size..........................: 78.29 MB
Total Playing Time............: 45:12
Release Notes:
It's been a while since Alexis Georgopoulos worked under his Arp
moniker, leaving three years trailing in the wake of his last
full-length album, The Soft Wave. He's worked in art and modern dance in
the interim, but Georgopoulos has clearly spent some time thinking about
how to retool this project as well. The Soft Wave was all balmy synth
textures and endlessly repeating figures, sometimes lightly prickled by
waves of bass and distorted guitar. Georgopoulos found his voice toward
the close of that record, forgoing his mostly instrumental work to
deliver a pitch-perfect pastiche of Brian Eno's 70s vocal work on "From
a Balcony Overlooking the Sea". Surprisingly, it's a thread he picks at
for the bulk of MORE, settling into a more song-oriented incarnation of
Arp that might cause people familiar with his older work to check the
package to make sure it's not some other band.
Where Georgopoulos has landed is somewhere in-between various strains of
the British art school tradition, where the mundane and the fantastic
are equally enthralling. It's part Roxy Music sci-fi fantasia, part Blur
down-the-chip-shop scruffiness. Georgopoulos is interested in glamour
for sure-- song titles here include "High-Heeled Clouds" and "A Tiger in
the Hall at Versailles"-- but it's a scruffy, vaudevillian form of it.
The sad, clangorous end to "Clouds" feels like a paean to actors who
couldn't quite make it, to singers who had a shot at the big time and
just fell short. It's heavy on pastiche, but very well done at times.
You won't hear a better piece of Eno worship than "Judy Nylon" this
year. Even the title is wonderfully Eno-esque. It's too bad Georgopoulos
waits until the closing track, "Persuasion", to get anywhere near the
same sense of pop euphoria again.
So there's a strong sense of someone not reaching particularly hard to
get beyond their influences, but even that takes on an appropriate hue
as the album progresses. MORE edges into the feel of low-rent theater at
times, where the makeup starts to run under the lights, where the
performer on stage is revealed to be a fraud. Georgopoulos does a blues
track and he calls it "(MORE) BLUES". He's emptied out pop and found a
bunch of dead ends, all circling back in on themselves. Still, this
isn't an exercise in the futility of writing this stuff in 2013; it's
more like a light, cheerful prod at the parameters of pop. Along the way
we get plenty of ambient interludes, hints of Brill Building pop, a dose
of Beatles-y goodness. There's a sense Georgopoulos isn't sure what Arp
should be, allowing him to resist being shaped, packaged, and neatly
filed away.
In among all the switching up there's a centerpiece to all of this, if
one can exist in such a baffling, un-centered piece, titled "Gravity
(For Charlemagne Palestine)", which is one-part Steve Reich repetitive
build, one-part Spiritualized-style astral gazing. Naturally, going from
that to the cheeky end-of-seaside-pier tracks takes some adjusting. But
MORE is an album that takes some time to settle in, to really get to
grips with all its diverse tendencies. Already it feels like it could
become a weightier work over time if Georgopoulos leaves all this behind
and moves on elsewhere, causing this album to perpetually spin in its
own odd orbit. It's mostly a delight to return to, with its misshapen
ways sometimes working toward a bigger picture until Georgopoulos
flushes it all down the u-bend via another baffling turn. Here he's got
a musical outlet that's not defined at all, and that's a strange and
occasionally beautiful thing.
-- 7.0/10 Pitchfork
Tracklisting
01. High-Heeled Couds 4:05
02. Judy Nylon 3:33
03. A Tiger In The Hall At Versailles 5:56
04. E2 Octopus 0:43
05. Light + Sound 5:38
06. 17th Daydream 2:03
07. Gravity (For Charlemagne Palestine) 6:21
08. Invisible Signals 0:28
09. More (Blues) 4:59
10. V2 Slight Return 0:58
11. Daphné & Chlöe 4:29
12. Persuasion 5:59
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