IMPORT. An awesome debut album, absolutely on par with Four Tet/Manitoba/Fridge. A more beautiful listening experience in a folk/electronica stylee will be hard to find this year. Minotaur Shock is the solo project of 25 year old Bristolian David Edwards. A man in demand and building a fair whack of a reputation with lots of plays from Radio 1 to Radio 3 as well as numerous remixes for the likes of Badly Drawn Boy, Andy Votel, His Name Is Alive and Tim Hutton to name a few...

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Minotaur Shock is David Edwards, lead singer of Bronze Age Fox, electronic musical marvel, and remixer du jour. His records of the last five years, while nodding in the direction of Boards Of Canada, Manitoba, and FourTet, have managed to avoid the folktronica scene. As much as he admires luminaries like Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, and Philip Glass, he also carries a heavy torch for FM rockers Steely Dan and The Cars. This new record is a more upbeat affair. It's the sound of "mutant-disco" with David trying to p   [ read more ]

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'Entirely instrumental, combining the modern (synthetic basslines) with the classical (cello melodies) to create a sweeping mood of turmoil and turbulence, and seriousness of purpose. One can imagine several extracts being used to soundtrack, say, the murder scene in a Peter Greenaway movie, or time-lapse photography of a rotting mammal on the rainforest floor. ' -The Independent (UK)

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VINYL FORMAT!! Following up his superb debut album Chiff Chaffs and Willow Warblers was never going to be a task accomplished by, in his own words, 'arseing about..and playing badly', but that magic combination seems to have worked yet again on Minotaur Shock's 3rd EP. The four new tracks, as well as possibly being his most beautiful and accomplished to date, perfectly meld electronica and folk, synthetic bleeps and warm guitar.

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Minotaur Shock (aka) David Edwards follows the lively synth pop shanties of Maritime with Amateur Dramatics, an album that's as big a step forward for his music as Maritime was compared to what came before it. Where that album was bright, bouncy, and overtly synthetic with a few live instruments, Amateur Dramatics is often dark, sophisticated, and urgent, with even more live instrumentation -- courtesy mostly of violinist James Underwood and woodwind player Emily Wakefield -- and nod   [ read more ]

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