Part of the post-rock/neo-Kraut/retro-electronic revival of the late '90s, U.K. trio Appliance deftly sidesteps the sometimes overbearing seriousness of those tags with a warm glow to their music, as wonderfully captured on their debut Manual. Perhaps unsurprising given their home at Mute Records, Appliance calls to mind kings of electronic music Kraftwerk, but in the Autobahn/Radioactivity sense of gentle melancholy rather than the frigid propulsion of Trans-Europe Express. An even...   [ read more ]

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RESTOCK. Recorded and produced over the last twelve months in their own studio, Appliance's sound has moved on from the motoric linearity of their 1999 debut long player "Manual" and last year's warm aquatic mini album "Six Modular pieces". Embracing the results of their German remix project "D4", (Pole, Kreidler, To Rococo Rot and Tarwater) Appliance have enhanced their sonic arsenal and yet still retained their unique sound of control and focused simplicity. "Imperial Metric" sees the band broadening the...   [ read more ]

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Having started out as an able-enough Krautrock-inspired group, by the time of Are You Earthed?, Appliance had much more individual flair, a happy fusion of the band's English background and its further-afield inspirations. If anything, there was as much Spiritualized in the mix as there was motorik -- not perhaps all that surprising given Jason Pierce's own fascination with the likes of Kraftwerk, to be sure. Certainly Jason Brooks' own vocals have more of the drowsy float and lift of ...   [ read more ]

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