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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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| Reviews Summary |
| 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 |
| Bloody Hell it's the '80s! This is unashamedly the 1980s, think Depeche Mode with a bit of Kraftwerk and Tubeway Army with in places a little bit of punk edginess, a very little bit. The Edinburgh four piece have got the art of synth-pop with a very little smattering of punk down to a fine art with a smidgeon of experimental (for 1982) sound thrown in for good measure. If, heaven forbid, there exists such a thing as an '80s Synth Pop purist they would not be offended by this. - Big Cheese |
