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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 |
| Mental Machine Music Self-belief can be unbearably irritating and, with a name that screams "we're something special" and a press release that references the Jesus & Mary Chain and talks about "era-defining music," The Magnificents might seem ripe for a kicking. Thankfully, this bunch of ex-Edinburgh College Of Art students deserve all the hype they can get. Their ballsy, chaotic debut fuses electro and punk, mixing juddering beats, Gang Of Four-esque rhythms and rumbling guitars and, as zeitgeisty as that sounds, it works brilliantly. The Mary Chain comparison, meanwhile, is far from frivilous: here too is a band who make a roaring, seemingly incoherent racket beaneath which lie tunes that shimmer and sparkle. - The List |
