Tainted Lunch
Scape
BEATS
> SAFTEY SCISSORS new album \"Tainted Lunch\" shows a healthy and interesting diet of influences and thoughts.
> With widescreen electronic pop music wearing its heart on its sleeve, the Berlin/San Fran based artist\'s second album proves that clever songwriting, frisky arrangements, and slanted dancefloor manoeuvres will always trump formulaic thumping & shrill, chilly attitudes.
> From amnesia to French cooking to transatlantic affairs of the heart, MATTHEW PATTERSON CURRY\'s lyrics sidestep clich in favour of an awkward vulnerability, deliberate off rhymes and quotidian details. When his wavery, emotionally direct voice (think CHET BAKER as a sozzled tech support worker) and wry lyrics are combined with brisk, brittle electronic production and twangy guitars, the result adds up to classic synthetic pop music of the kind that makes everybody reach for their NEW ORDER and MAGNETIC FIELDS albums.
> But there\'s a substantial freakiness/funkiness to Curry\'s production too which takes 80\'s synth funk stabs, saxophone, a rubber bass guitar, electric piano, kazoo and banjo in stride, and sets beats and basslines spinning in odd directions, as frazzled quakes and dubbed out bleeps fizz through the mix.
> The cast of supporting characters & guest artists reveal a considerable pedigree: guest singers & cosongwriters include ELEND YE of KINGS OF CONVENIENCE, KEVIN BLECHDOM amongst others, as well as production flourishes from VLADISLAV DELAY.
> NME \"Small can be beautiful, and the method of San Franciscobased laptop pilot Matthew Patterson Curry bears that thinking out...\" ... JOCKEY SLUT \"His grooveladen, delicate works have earned him a reputation as a techno\'s first \'progressive pop\' producer and drawn comparisons with Bjork and Herbert\" ... SPIN \"All this faceless electronica leaving you cold A new breed of avantgarde mischiefmakers are disrupting the techno\'s cult of impersonality with indierock attitude and a warped sense of humor. Meet the real daft punks\" ...
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Cheese
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Sunlight Take 2
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Breastbone
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Amnesia
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Soup Pm
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Disaster
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Barf
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Defekt Take 2
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Housewives
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Germany
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