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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 |
| Another reminder from Stephen Wilkinson that just because it's electronic doesn't mean it has to be cold and clean. Instead, it seems he's managed to capture exactly what we were all hoping to produce with those hours of bedroom four-track experimentation--Fahey 101 guitar moves and murky vocals ornamented by swirling backwards sounds, all with the wobble of a cassette auto-reversed a few too many times. Dictaphone recordings of bird song and creek water add to the film strip soundtrack vibe and keep the mossy environments of the album's more ambient moments green, even when things enter full-on Penguin Cafe mode on tracks like "Weekend Wildfire." - Soundscapes |
