Marconi Union - Distance

What goes around comes around ambient. That's the message from a third generation of electronica artists who were just leaving the womb when Brian Eno's early works were being diffused in the 1970s. They were barely teens when the Orb rolled forth in the '90s. But new artists like Boards of Canada, the Album Leaf, and Explosions in the Sky are taking those early ambient primers and adding geometries of glitch and dream guitar to the mix, creating a melodic brand of ethereal music with an edge. Marconi Union, a Manchester duo, follow suit on a CD that travels in cinematic melancholy and textural malaise. Their songs build slowly, emerging out of a flattened landscape of static and stillness to attain a quietly triumphal beauty. Percussion is almost subliminal in journeys that pulse more than groove. It sometimes gets ominous, with an ostinato bass growl prowling through a Blade Runner landscape on "Inter." But usually they generate a quiet awe, like the slow build of "Sleepless." Expect to hear tracks from Distance in soundtracks and commercials near you soon.


1. Sleepless
2. These European Cities
3. Through Glass
4. Buildings and People
5. Suburb 27
6. iNter
7. a Temporary Life


1. Ginza District
2. Lost in Neon
3. Nighworker
4. Hatsunori
5. Red Line 12am
6. Akihabara (Electric Town)
7. Temperature Drop


1. Glace Bay (Part One)
2. Border Crossing
3. Northern Stations
4. the Contact
5. the Currer Bell Version
6. in Shadows (Parts One and Two)
7. Under Wires and Searchlights
8. Glace Bay (Part Two)


1. iNteriors
2. Endless Winter
3. Debris
4. Hinterland
5. Stationary
6. we Travel
7. Transient



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http://www.marconiunion.com/index.asp
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