To call the title of Martyn Joseph's new album unwieldy is to be excessively kind, because Whoever It Was That Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home is two or three mouthfuls. While the title, like a good line of poetry, is a bit obscure, it's clear that this Welsh singer/songwriter has serious things on his mind. The opener, "Love Is," attempts to wrap its arms around all of life's experiences -- "The seasons and the storms/The euphoric and the norms" -- under the metaphor of love. In {...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. I always like to think my stuff is "music for a warm but rainy day." You know, low frequencies do something to your muscles when you listen to them. There have been studies of low frequencies contracting your muscles, and because they contract certain muscles you have the urge to move, you know, to get rid of that itchy feeling in your arms and legs. So that would be a reason to dance. I grew up in Eindhoven, and lived in Rotterdam for five years, both cities are techno and drum and bass stro...   [ read more ]

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'This 2000 reissue compiles Martyn Bates' first two solo albums onto a digital album. Only five years separate 1982's Letters Written and 1987's The Return of the Quiet, but the two albums sound so different that this album can't help but sound oddly disjunctive. Letters Written, ten brief tracks originally released on a 10 EP, consists of solo synthesizer reveries overlaid with some of Bates' most mannered and idiosyncratic singing. The slowly moving songs are largely interchangeable, with only the inter...   [ read more ]

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