Slowcream ‘Wax On Wool’.
January 25, 2009
Predictably unpredictable, those Eastern European electro-savantes have done it again with Wax On Wool. With an absolutely insane sense of musicality that pays scant regard to the cloying convention of tawdry ideals such as ‘structure’ and ‘cohesion’, Slowcream craft a bizarrely brilliant brand of wanton experimentia that sounds like two ADHD-riddled robots fucking on a distant planet in the year 4000. Nothing is hurried: it’s all subtle tropes and quiet assurance, but persevere and you’ll discover a well-integrated fusion of classical samples and electronic samples.
Most of the tracks come on as dissonant as the inside of a crash helmet seconds after a motorway pile-up but tracks like the staccato ‘Into Butter’ and fuzzily-distended ‘On Carpets’ provide a neat counterpoint to more soothing segments like the wondrous ‘In The Cave’, which comes together to form a smooth and sensual whole. All in all, Wax On Wool is off-kilter sashay through a fine batch of sporadically-inspired electronic minimalism. Just make sure you get to it before the marketing men plunder and gut it to provide soundtracks for car ads.
