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MH-263 Bibio - Vignetting The Compost  Seamlessly amalgamating nature and electronics, Vignetting The Compost, the third full-length release from Bibio, channels instruments and vocals from a bygone era through a futuristic digital portal. History may credit Edison with the phonograph but, in truth, the first such device mysteriously washed up on the shores of England in 1876… playing Bibio. Vignetting The Compost is at once timeless and innovative; 60s-esque folk guitar and mechanic manipulations of sounds whose instruments of origin are less important than the feelings they evoke, layer upon each other with ease and intricacy. Just when you expect to hear Nico’s moan escaping your stereo, Bibio himself comes through with a voice that could have sung next to her on “These Days.” Truly, this is an album for the ages. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| Some of Bibio's most varied and immediate work - All Music Guide / A beautiful, crackling bricolage of vintage sounds - Evil Monito / Bibio’s best record - PopMatters / Quite perfect - Losing Today / Bibio should have no problem calling his greatest - Urb / Beautiful, expressive pools of sound - The Agit Reader |
| If you consider other electro-folk bands like Caribou or Looper, live instruments (drums, acoustic guitars) might give the music a more organic feel, but the balance teeters heavily toward electronica. With Bibio (AKA Stephen Wilkinson, a British sound-art student and music producer), the opposite is true. Pure digital sounds are mostly absent. Instead it's the acoustic elements combined with other field recordings that are sped up, pitch-altered and looped to create backbeats or entire tracks. The result is a bizarre yet beautifully delicate amalgamation of The Books, Devendra Banhart and Boards of Canada recorded on a warped vinyl platter. - The Coast |
