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  • Issued : 24 May 2006

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Genre : Dance & Soul Catalogue Number : 202
Format : CD Label : K7 Records
Issued : 24 May 2006 Item sourced from : USA
Number of Discs : 1

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『Scale』発売記念インタビュー

エレクトロニックミュージック界を代表するひとつの才能、Matthew Herbertが『Bodily Functions』以来実に5年ぶりとなるHerbert名義での新作『Scale』を完成。『Bodily Functions』や『Aruond The House』、そしてビッグバンドでのアルバムを思わせる傑作を肴にHMVインタビュー。

Herbert インタビュー


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  • LP   US Edition   ¥3,245   Reissue LP (US Import)   Released: 29 May 2006  

HMV Review

Given Scale's use of sounds that come from associable objects like fuel pumps and coffins, as well as its maker's unflagging devotion to recording methods of greater (and almost Jackass-like) extremes, it would be easy to prejudge the album as dry and joyless. One poor drummer was recorded under water, in a hot air balloon, and in a car driving 100 miles an hour -- hey, for kicks next time, why not record his finger cymbals as he grapples a shark wearing a Dick Cheney mask? Thankfully, if all you care about is the listenability of the results, all the contextual and conceptual stuff matters not a lick. Herbert is more upset about the state of the planet than ever, especially when it comes to the actions and inactions of Bush and Blair, but he has also made it known that he aimed to make an enjoyable, richly musical album full of melodies and multi-part harmonies. If the occasionally overcooked Goodbye Swingtime and the thoroughly constricted Plat du Jour were necessary phases to reach this place, so be it -- each of Scale's first four songs rival anything in his past, whether it's Going Round, Suddenly, his best remix work, or his productions on Dani Siciliano's Likes... and Roisin Murphy's Ruby Blue. It's clearly the most pop-oriented songs on the latter two releases that inform Scale the most. The most biting political line comes during the first verse of The Movers and the Shakers: I just don't know how to bring about your downfall/Damn fool, go figure out how those Christian bones can orchestrate shock and awe. However, for the remainder of the album, it's not difficult to forget about Herbert's motives and issues and take full delight in the shapely sounds, whether they're coming from a drum recorded in a cave, an orchestra recorded at Abbey Road, or vocalists recorded in Herbert and Siciliano's home. Though Herbert has outdone himself and matches his ambitions with his achievements, the songs are unmistakably his and Siciliano's, sounding like no one else, twisting and swinging and drifting with optimum vibrancy. Some of them are big and bold enough to be used in a stage production. All of them are 100 percent heavenly, even when they're dealing with loss. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi

Credits

Leo Bubba Taylor(Drums),  Neil Thomas(Vocals),  Peter Wraight(Flute),  Phil Parnell(Piano),  Neil Thomas(Vocals (Background)),  Peter Wraight(Clarinet (Bass)),  Peter Wraight(Flugelhorn),  Diego Magallanes(Palmas),  Sarah Hopper(Fonts),  Ambrose Field(Engineer),  Chris Bolster(Engineer),  Matthew Herbert(Producer),  Peter Wraight(Arranger),  Alexis Smith(Assistant Engineer),  Dani Siciliano(Composer),  Ian Stickland(Assistant Engineer),  James Price Herbert(Artwork),  James Price Herbert(Photography),  Lenka Clayton(Artwork),  Lenka Clayton(Photography),  Mandy Parnell(Mastering),  Matthew Herbert(Composer),  Mirek Stiles(Assistant Engineer),  Rebecca Gibson(Copyist),  Russell Swift(Orchestra Contractor),  Alexis Smith(Field Recording),  James Price Herbert(Video),  Lenka Clayton(Video)

Songs

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    1
    Something Isn't Right  (03:44)
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    2
    Movers and the Shakers, The  (04:15)
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    3
    Moving Like a Train  (05:52)
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    4
    Harmonise  (05:39)
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    5
    We're in Love  (04:43)
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    6
    Birds of a Feather  (05:05)
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    7
    Those Feelings  (04:23)
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    8
    Down  (06:12)
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    9
    Movie Star  (04:14)
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    10
    Just Once  (06:23)
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    11
    Wrong  (01:01)

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  • ★★★★☆ 

    火事藁君  |  ココ!  |  不明  |  25/March/2009

    1曲目から気持ちよ過ぎ。前作の暗さ、マイナー感が苦手という人にお勧め。ポップで軽快で小気味良い。売れ線にも聴こえます。曲数も最適。部屋でのbgm、お洒落な場所でも、使い道はたくさんありそうです。

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  • ★★★★★ 

    しらかば  |  日本  |  不明  |  15/February/2007

    60’sディスコソウル風のM3がたまらん良さ。相変わらずこの人のメロディは何度も聴きたくなる絶妙な押さえ加減です。

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  • ★★★★★ 

    ユリイカ  |  愛知県  |  不明  |  11/June/2006

    脱帽です!この人のセンスは絶妙だね!彼の作品の中では一番聴き易いと思いました!それなりに悪意も感じてナイスな出来(笑)

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