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I didn’t know you could fit this much noise on one CD

Francis Plagne is one of those crazy scientist types who has a way with sound and sample combining. I reckon it’s good creative music – get out your paints and printing materials and get weird. I don’t know whether all these songs should have been put on the one album, but I still manage to get lost in the tweaking, winding, breathing and feedback. The album’s occasional deviance into pop with xylophone, organ and ambient husky vocals is a welcome change that comes every few tracks. While 19 year-old Plagne has been praised for his mature approach to music, his descriptive and distant lyrics still seem at times adolescent. But in the context of an album filled with similarly distant and descriptive noises, experimental lyricism and odd instrumentation, they are fitting. I love the haunting style and driving dynamics of Replace U With An A.

ILI TULLOCH

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