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MH-263 Bibio - Vignetting The Compost  Seamlessly amalgamating nature and electronics, Vignetting The Compost, the third full-length release from Bibio, channels instruments and vocals from a bygone era through a futuristic digital portal. History may credit Edison with the phonograph but, in truth, the first such device mysteriously washed up on the shores of England in 1876… playing Bibio. Vignetting The Compost is at once timeless and innovative; 60s-esque folk guitar and mechanic manipulations of sounds whose instruments of origin are less important than the feelings they evoke, layer upon each other with ease and intricacy. Just when you expect to hear Nico’s moan escaping your stereo, Bibio himself comes through with a voice that could have sung next to her on “These Days.” Truly, this is an album for the ages. |
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| Some of Bibio's most varied and immediate work - All Music Guide / A beautiful, crackling bricolage of vintage sounds - Evil Monito / Bibio’s best record - PopMatters / Quite perfect - Losing Today / Bibio should have no problem calling his greatest - Urb / Beautiful, expressive pools of sound - The Agit Reader |
| The Scottish post-punk synth rockers know all about the beauty of brevity and how to make up songs that get in your face with engaging enthusiasm. This second album boasts a thrillingly varied repertoire from the off, impossibly evoking and entwining the spirits of Killing Joke and Kraftwerk in the introduction of "Ring Ring Oo Oo." "Get It Boy" boasts one of those stirringly infectious choruses that will trail you all day, while "Dedridge Cowboys" is a knowing wink to Lothian's wild west. Could yet be huge. - Scotland On Sunday |
