Lid EMBA | Decibelia | Hearsay | Non-Fiction | Telezygote |
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| TERMINAL MUSE: BLUE | ||||
| "Aesthetically, it follows much in the footsteps of last year's Red with avant soundscapes sculpted from abrasive beats, icy synthesizers, abstract glitch and spastic blasts of prog rock. It's dark and fractured and more than a little frayed at the edges, but there are enough ambient and melodic moments to keep it from becoming too bleak and jarring." Latest Disgrace |
"Atlanta's Lid Emba knows how to take a song into unexpected places, and the drums give it a noticeably human touch. Experimental music with a sense of fun." Little Advances |
"To call TM Blue different would be an understatement. This is spastic beat music for those with criminally short attention spans, ironic for such long tracks. Some good, avant garde listening." Odd Bloggings |
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"Super cool electro with dash of post rock or even prog. Avant stuff that isn't afraid of using noise and distorted synth sources. Best moments are long epic distort washes that fans of Nadja, Sujo will like. All instrumental. All kick ass." |
"Drum heavy, trip heavy. James Plotkin adds a mix of his own, going out into drum/bass/drill land. Things work best when they are more straight forward, though still quite furious. Not the sort of thing to play on a daily basis, but quite good for an all out ear cleansing experience." |
"Continues the grand tradition of harsh electronics used to create sound rather than standardized songs. Unlike the average modern day synthesizer artist who wants crystal clear sounds, Moore seems to grovel in distortion and accidentals. Chaotic harsh stuff reminiscent of early experimental acts like Suicide. Heavy and hard" Babysue |
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| "Reminiscent of Fennesz or similar, Moore creates harsh synthscapes that turn into dreamy almost melodic songs. 'Dawning' works exactly that way, starting with a dissonant loop that slowly is overtaken by a more melodic line before it falls right back into the noise." Reviler |
"Ambient with extra frightnight. This sounds like snow crunching under your feet accompanied by the sound of your laboured breath. Snatches of Black Sabbath play. And all the time the source of the fear gets ever closer. Until… It passes… For Now." Acid Ted |
"Seven tracks of heavy rhythms swaddled in dark-ambient drone and noise. Early works by Cluster and This Heat are big influences on the experimental sounds that manifest themselves here. As strange as it is sophisticated." the one true dead angel |
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| "The music is inventive and curious, kind of 'let’s see what could have happened if Wendy Carlos wasn't lost in soundtracks,' a little bit more up-in-your-face than the 'red' edition. The album concluded with what might be a quick and new tradition, a track wonderfully versioned by James Plotkin. Of course I'm looking forward to the third part of the trilogy." terrascope |
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| TERMINAL MUSE: RED | ||||
"Loud rhythm music loaded with nasty synthesizer bits. Quite a furious little fucker and a very fine release. Earcleaning time." |
"As abstract as the tracks get, this isn't random improvisational music – it’s far too tight and the melodic figures too deliberate to be 'happy accidents.' It’s the perfect soundtrack to a downtown drive on a hot summer’s night in a sinister mood – trouble awaits!" Pushed Buttons Burning In |
"Mastered for maximum unease by James Plotkin, the five tracks of dark psychedelic noise on this album are a towering testament to the healing power of efx abuse and truly peculiar ideas about juxtaposing certain sounds and patterns in eccentric methods. Startling and otherworldly." the one true dead angel |
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"The tracks scream and rake away at your eardrums, creating soundscapes like urban wastelands, full of unpleasant pitfalls, yet nicer to have outside your back door than a rubbish dump." |
"If you're tempted, be prepared for this circa-26 minute instrumental extravaganza: themusic is a factory-fuelled splash of concrete sounds, where the abrasive texture of the sounds is as important as any conventionally understandable rhythm or melody." |
"Sean Moore's musical cloak, Lid Emba, does battle with instro pieces that are significantly more spurty, spastic, rude and plastic on his new EP." Stomp and Stammer |
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"Raw dark 'n dirty synthi roughness… like 'Jazz from Hell' from hell… mysterious broken spheres… |
"I'm curious to hear where this guy takes this already-intriguing blend of glitch, jazz and post/prog-rock." Foxy Digitalis |
"Yet another showcase of why Lid Emba is one of the best experimenters in a city brimming over with avant-garde artists. Adventurous listeners will find much to love here, so give it a go." Ohmpark |
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| WE SUBSTITUTE RADIANCE | ||||
| "The final track clocks in at a staggering nine and half minutes, and is nothing short of 100% pure, tripped out synthetic bliss." Sea of Tranquility |
"A beautiful piece of avant-garde electronica." ReGen Magazine |
"Like spending 40 minutes inside an especially creepy toy shop." Terrascope | ||
"So mind bendingly complicated that to try and analyze it at any great length is enough to cause a brain hemorrhage for even the most decorated of polymaths." |
"Theater of the mind music that keeps you on your toes, which is very important in these days of 30 second attention spans." |
"A bizzaro world aesthetic that manages to be dark and disturbing yet reassuring. One of the best Atlanta-based albums of 2008." Ohmpark Atlanta Music Blog |
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| "A series of complex and bewildering beats upon which a swirling kaleidoscope of electronica is constructed." Wonderful Wooden Reasons |
"Wicked, textural, and disturbing." MastanMusic |
"An ominously apocalyptic parade of pieces that may serve well as the winning side's celebratory soundtrack once humanity falls and the machines take over once and for all." Stomp and Stammer |
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"Like a hallucinogenic mushroom cloud slowly dissolving in a dark dance club and bathing the dancers in radiation." |
"An art-damaged jam between Tangerine Dream, early 90's Residents, and a dubbed-out electro-King Crimson. Heavy guitars, fractured beats, pulsing bass and massive amounts of knob-twiddling all collide for an amazing psychedelic journey to a better place. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED." |
"Elements of psyche, electro, prog, ambience lace this collaboration. All instrumental, very interesting and progressive quantum leaps into the realms of new music, pop, experimental." KZSU Zookeeper Online |
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| REASON ISN'T RADAR | ||||
| "A twitchy, glitchy, fun and funky exploration of the outer edges of beat driven sounds. Think Autechre with a smile on it's face and a song in it's heart." Wonderful Wooden Reasons |
"The raw sound points to the use of traditional, non-sophisticated equipment for processing and marshalling; yet the glitch noise indicates complicated computer generated music... a unique debut." The Plastic Ashtray |
"There's something new and crazy every other second... a more organic approach taken to a style usually embodied by synthetics..." Ohmpark Atlanta Music Blog |
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"Noisy and dysfunctional psychedelia." |
"The collection overrides any rock-influenced undertones, fusing outright noise with ambient psychedelic sounds. Moreover, it's more the intelligent use of technology and equipment rather than sampling that makes this album uniquely styled, in contrast to most of Lid Emba's contemporaries." allmusic |
"On the experimental side, yet structured and relaxed. Loops and sounds that get close to prog rock." KZSU Zookeeper |
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