| « Monolith » is O.Lamm’s third full-fledged album, and a massive overleap since his widely acclaimed « Hello Spiral ». When the latter was a monumental exercise in musical genres blurring and a spiral of psychedelic, offset electronic pop music, « Monolith » is its steel technoid counterpart, a missile shaped assemblage of sounds, beats and vocals to get all silly on the dancefloor. Pass the overture and the manifest J-pop song « Genius Boy » and it’s all beats, beats, breaks, beats, sneaky hooks and viciously overloaded electro funk, a Melvins riff replayed on a Gameboy, a tribute to Betty Davis and a Linn beatbox, an ominous pumpy techno English/Japanese lesson, softer moments, fiercer moments. Momus raps his ass off, Lullatone’s Yoshimi Tomida sings the major scale, the Konki Duet’s Zoe Wolf and Nobuko Hori (Music Related) chill the blood, Midori Hirano (Noble) warms things up – a labor of love and noise for deviant dancefloors, to take a walk in Shibuya or Nakameguro, on a hot Sunday afternoon. |
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Tracklist :
01. La Chasse Aux Oiseaux (with Yoshimi Tomida)
02.Genius Boy (with Kumi Okamoto)
03. The Macguffin
04.Open Malice (with Zoé Wolf)
05.Return of the Night Goat
06.Tammy Metempsycho Darling
07.Syllabus of Errors (with Momus)
08.Silviphobia/O Meu Sonho Geometrico (with Midori Hirano)
09.Aerialist
10.????????! (bring the noise)
11.Electric Emily (with Nobuko Hori)
12.City of Julie (with Cindy Lee) |
