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MH-056 Corduroi - Anything For Now  Anything For Now is a small but loaded taste of Corduroi’s whimsical, intricate, and synthesized electro-pop. This six-track EP is a brew of manipulated vocals and chopped samples of an endless world of instruments, which have been mixed and stirred to produce arrangements on par with the very best electronic producers. "Crustacean" kicks things off with gorgeously chopped synth pads and a playful melody. “Like Gentle Giants” channels a lush dreamscape with an acoustic guitar that seems to morph into electric piano, minimal feel, and soft vocals. "Monk's Muse" twists and chops the synths and vocals until you're not sure which way you're spinning. “All Ways” is a fanciful R&B reworking that uses elements of forty years worth of electronic production and sound design. “Bangarangarang” and "My Dear" both fuse the past with the future, as the album's closer relishes in deep-house bleeps and female vocal samples, while never mistaking that the year is 2011. Corduroi's elaborate compositional mind is on full display with Anything For Now, and is a sign of a producer already locking in his own voice. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| If you think that MGMT didn't go weird enough with their last album or you believe Fleet Foxes should eat more mushrooms, then maybe you need a little Corduroi - Professional Music Geek / Has more to say than much of the indie music put out this year - Verbicide / Especially appealing with its flowing whimsical electro-pop sound. - Big Up |
| Mush Records seems to be on a new bent at the moment serving up a fusion of hip-hop meets post rave electronica. Corduroi is close to this description, with beat structures being strongly influenced by hip-hop and freely using cut and paste techniques, slap beats, reverse samples and so on. Then, Corduroi fuses the sounds with high tone synth dystopias, strong hi-hat lead beats, punchy bass and rather wonky melody lines. The vocal samples included are rather chopped up and effected and the overall feel is a louche funk. The standout track, ‘All ways‘, weaves finger-clicking with warped sounds, chipmunk effected vocal samples, and an insistent bright soundscape that opens with faux field recording ambience. Then there is the quiet guitar sample, kick and click of ‘Like gentle giants’ which weaves a quiet pattern into a slow floor track with melodic breaks and slightly warped modulations. The skittish ‘Monk’s muse‘ has that raved-up insistence melded with hip-hop in quite a frenzied simplicity. ‘Bangarangaran‘ uses its samples well to build up a call-and-response sample style that melds with a playful and simple melodic keyboard before the distortions take hold. Final track ‘My Dear‘ is more of a synth, four on the floor number with a stripped down minimal template and few of the hip-hop elements. - Cyclic Defrost |
