Thank the maker. Something vaguely original is happening in music today.
Keyboard Choir’s debut album opens with a nice dose of Accordian sounding synth and earthquake noises on the short track The Drone of The Hearse. The implied drama in this has me nicely hooked for the second track and the album beginning proper.
It’s all very floaty, synth noises and dub style drums with strange waltz timings. Fantastic. Epic. Different. Probably never going to make the charts. After nearly three minutes of ethereal near tranquillity a full on electro assault happens. It seems so right though. Anybody who’s a fan of El-P will be very much at home in the aural arms of Keyboard Choir so much so that the fourth track, In This Situation Thinking Won’t Help, could quite easily be an outtake from Mr Melin’s recent I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead release.
In parts this sounds like the amazing sonicscape from some Blade Runner-esque film. Sometimes it’s glitch, sometimes it’s electro sometimes it’s almost lovely pop. I won’t go as far as to say that this band are the finished article but this is the most promising of starts and I shall be keeping a careful eye on their progress. I’m going to give them extra praise for trying to find their own voice as well.
Reviewed by Daniel Finnerty
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Thursday 15th November 2007
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