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MH-258 Eliot Lipp - The Outside  Eliot Lipp continues his impressive retooling of analog infused electro-funk with his latest full-length, The Outside, his first for Mush Records. Techno and hip-hop in their earliest, formative stages have inspired Eliot throughout his career, and form the common thread running through the album. Slick analogue synth work and tight drum programming abound, as Eliot deconstructs his influences to create something that is both recognizable and completely futuristic. For listeners who remember a time when electronic music had a little dirt under its fingernails, The Outside will truly capture your imagination. |
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| Eliot Lipp is: Outside. Eliot Lipp is: Fading out of existence because he failed to mend his would-be parents' almost-relationship prior to his now hypothetical birth, yet all he can surmise is, "Well, don't that just beat all." Eliot Lipp is: Not listening to his friends when they say, "Dude, you should totally put some robots on your next album cover, oh and we should get a stripper for your birthday party! When is your birthday?" Eliot Lipp is: ABOUT TO BE HIT BY A CAR OR PEDESTRIAN, OH NOOOO...but wait! Eliot Lipp is: Ghost Dad! Come to warn us that within a few hours the dashboard from Fiestas + Fiascos will be rolling through here. Yikes. Eliot Lipp is: Wondering how many tattoos he could hide beneath his sleeves. Eliot Lipp is: freaking pissed it took so long for some people to recognize his album only to ultimately dwell on the cover art. Wanks. Yeah, um ... Yeah. Anyway, word on the street* is that The Outside is fresh. Which alone is probably compelling enough reason to check it out, or even write something about it. But now that 30music.com has said it's fresh - or at least that they heard it was fresh - oooooh well, you probably have to check it out...and certainly consider finishing whatever you're writing about it. Really what else are you doing? Trying to figure out exactly what the hell this disc sounds like, already? What, "fresh," wasn't good enough for you? Well, ingrate, if you can imagine the light cycle racing guys from Tron as subjects of a documentary about unbalanced extreme athletes who...well, crash wicked fast dayglow motorcycles into each other, The Outside is what you'd hear faintly in the background of the oxygen bar wherein said athletes would be found trying to cope with the dementia of their day-to-day reality. Then they'd go crash more bikes into each other and someone would probably die. But such is life in the crazy world of Tron, and that's why it's the subject of this year's most talked about imaginary documentary. Ah, but we were talking about Eliot Lipp. "Not exactly," you scoff? Well, we were supposed to be, if that counts for anything. Maybe if we were in the mood for specifics, we'd suggest The Outside sounds like Fontanelle confined by the crisp order of post-millennial basement beats. Maybe we'd be irresponsibly inferential and claim it evocative of Bubblefish Breaks brashly reinterpreted and expanded through Boom Bip's sense of the infinite. Maybe we'd be lazy and surface-oriented by supposing the updated essence of Ninja Tune's golden age mingling with some suburban fanboy's adaption of G-funk melody could sound a little like this. Maybe we just found the most annoying way to say all of the above, while neglecting to mention the subtle way The Outside revives 1980s futurism without being blindly nostalgic, irrationally trendy or just plain sycophantic. Lipp successfully maintains a versatile familiarity while straying from basically any buzz sound, tapping obvious archetypes yet avoiding niche classification. It all makes for a bizarre album that falls (though closely) beside its contemporary time -- an act which in itself should bring at least mild excitement. If nothing else The Outside is refreshing. *Possibly the very same street that Eliot Lipp is standing on, thinking about...alright, alright enough's enough. - 30music |
1XLP/Out Of Print