Monday, April 13, 2009

Keef Baker - Pen Fifteen


CD1:
01. Getting Older
02. Dead End
03. Skellington
04. The East Is Not The Enemy
05. Sailing The Goat Sea
06. Mr Snugglebunny's Happy Paradise Is Slowly Turned Inside Out
07. Big Dick Bricks Covered In Sick
08. Mintymart Overdraft
09. Setekey Sysfuckoffcunt V1
10. Sheepscar Junction
11. Sugar Daddy For Shemale


CD2:
01. The Voice Of Light City
02. You've Been Snarpooned
03. The Square
04. Acid Indigestion
05. A Glittering Netto Palace
06. Cake And Black Sheep
07. Shut Up Neil, For Fuck's Sake!
08. The Great Escape
09. Wine Sponge
10. Aeronautics
11. Return To Light City
12. Soul Folding


Mighty sub-bass drones, driving, energetic beats, wonderful piano lines, atmospheric keyboards, doomy guitars, occasional vocal work - "Pen Fifteen" is another journey into Keef Baker's world, where unequal musical styles like trip-hop, electronica and even metal are used as baseplates and sometimes merge within a single note - just check out what starts as a distorted guitar and ends as click'n'cut in "Dead End". Instead of 'eclecticism', a logical extrapolation of varied influences is displayed, whether it be post-rock, intelligent dance music, dub... in the end they become one style that can only be called Keef Baker. 11 songs of melodic harshness - loud and powerful even in their quietest moments. Expect your expectations to be confounded!

The second CD, "Light City" - intended to be listened to without interference or pauses - is a trip into sudorific club life that keeps you moving for more than an hour. An astounding mix with well-placed increasing and decreasing speed, ranging from dubstep to techno to drum and bass to breakcore and back. This is Keef as he sounds while performing live - a great addition to a fantastic album...www.musicnonstop.co.uk

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