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MH-227 Neotropic - White Rabbits  After a string of successful releases for Ninja Tune's Ntone imprint, Neotropic makes her Mush debut with her finest work to date: White Rabbits. Utilizing collaborative live performances from a number of talented guest musicians on a bed of sparse programming, Neotropic has crafted a release that is a continuation of her migration toward warm, minimal, acoustically grounded compositions. Her blend of environmental audio and rhythms document many moods and transitions. Piano lines and strings drift above fragile drum loops, an unassuming guitar strum slowly develops into a moving body of instruments, and sporadic vocals muse on the difficulty of finding and maintaining love. |
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| Exceptional - XLR8R / This is a shimmering, intoxicating record - Metro.Pop / Showcases an artist at the top of her form, remaking her image on her own terms, and refusing to allow her music to be affected by anything other than the limitations of her own creativity - Pitchfork |
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| Riz Maslen returns with her trusty sampler, but that's not all. Maslen uses live musicians to inspire and flesh out her computer mixes, White Rabbits being an exceptional example of personality-filled instrumentalists streaming in and around her atmospheric galaxy of freak sounds and disturbing effects. Pushing the live-programmed genre forward, tracks like "New Cross" recall guitarist Bill Frisell. The album grows progressively darker, as later number "Joe Luke" dives subterranean into an ambient horror-show world and closer "If We Were Trees" is a loony lark of laughing children with Maslen croaking, "Your doing my head in." - XLR8R |
2XLP/Out Of Print