Keeping the same highly textural and organic experimental electronic compositions of last year's Language Game album (Tomlab) Love Your Mother is Inkblot's second full length release. A slightly warmer sounding record than the first, it pushes the sparkling moments of piano, guitar, bass, further into gear while keeping the shimmering field recordings in top form as well. Though highly melodic, Inkblot creator Jeremy Ballard also creates a more deconstructed album, melting rhythms into vapor and gluing the...   [ read more ]

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As Inkblot, Texan Jeremy Ballard composes melodic electronic music using a standard setup of sequenced synthesizers, drum machines, and computers augmented by Ballard's own guitar playing. Many of the now-familiar glitch and IDM signposts are here and, indeed, the electronic textures on The Language Game do not elevate Ballard above his peers. Rather, what makes this record memorable is the solid melodic core at the heart of nearly every track. Returnless is an exceptional marriage of tune and tone, as an ...   [ read more ]

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A gentle ebb and flow characterizes Jeremy Ballard's second album, following his accomplished Language Game debut for the Cologne-based Tomlab with a follow-up effort for a label located a little closer to his Texas home, Portland's unassuming but ever enjoyable Audio Dregs imprint. The title track, which closes the album, defines the simplicity adhered to by the ten pieces of music that precede it -- where an acoustic guitar emerges tentatively from bedraggled electronic elements. Although ...   [ read more ]

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