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Wanderlust (Blancmange Album)
''Wanderlust'' is the tenth studio album by British synth-pop band Blancmange (band), Blancmange, released in 2018. It was produced by Neil Arthur and Benge (musician), Benge, and reached No. 22 on the UK Independent Albums Chart. The single "Not a Priority" features Hannah Peel on backing vocals. Critical reception Upon release, Paul Scott-Bates of ''Louder Than War (website), Louder Than War'' wrote: "...if anything, this album is potentially [Neil Arthur's] finest work. It is sparse whilst having depth, it is humorous whilst maintaining seriousness, but most importantly of all, it shows a man on the top of his game." Aaron Badgley of ''The Spill Magazine'' commented: "''Wanderlust'' is a brilliant album, and it does not sound like any other Blancmange album. Arthur, along with Benge has created a rather dark and at times frightening album. In its darkness, it is quite beautiful." Nick Smith of ''MusicOMH'' considered ''Wanderlust'' to be a "brilliant album", containing "dark a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blancmange (band)
Blancmange () are an English synth-pop band formed in Harrow, London, in 1979. The band were a duo for much of their career, composed of Neil Arthur (vocals) and Stephen Luscombe (keyboards). They came to prominence in the early 1980s, releasing four UK top-20 singles: " Living on the Ceiling", "Waves", " Blind Vision" and " Don't Tell Me". They released three studio albums during that decade: ''Happy Families'' (1982), ''Mange Tout'' (1984) and ''Believe You Me'' (1985). The duo amicably broke up in 1986 but reformed in the late 2000s, and in 2011 released their fourth studio album, ''Blanc Burn''. Luscombe left following the release due to ill health, and since then Arthur alone has continued to perform under the Blancmange name, releasing nine new studio albums along with a re-recording of the band's debut studio album, titled '' Happy Families Too...'' (2013). He has also been involved in a further three collaborative albums as Fader (with Benge) and Near Future (with Jez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Arthur
Blancmange () are an English synth-pop band formed in Harrow, London, in 1979. The band were a duo for much of their career, composed of Neil Arthur (vocals) and Stephen Luscombe (keyboards). They came to prominence in the early 1980s, releasing four UK top-20 singles: " Living on the Ceiling", "Waves", " Blind Vision" and " Don't Tell Me". They released three studio albums during that decade: ''Happy Families'' (1982), ''Mange Tout'' (1984) and ''Believe You Me'' (1985). The duo amicably broke up in 1986 but reformed in the late 2000s, and in 2011 released their fourth studio album, ''Blanc Burn''. Luscombe left following the release due to ill health, and since then Arthur alone has continued to perform under the Blancmange name, releasing nine new studio albums along with a re-recording of the band's debut studio album, titled '' Happy Families Too...'' (2013). He has also been involved in a further three collaborative albums as Fader (with Benge) and Near Future (with Jez B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benge (musician)
Ben Edwards (born 1967), known professionally as Benge is an English musician and record producer based in Cornwall, England. The main focus of his work is within the experimental electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ... field. Solo career He launched the record label Expanding Records as an outlet for his debut album ''Electro-orgoustic Music'' in 1995. The label, which focuses on instrumental electronic music, continued to grow to include a roster of approximately 20 artists from around the world. He also runs a music studio called Memetune Studios which houses a large collection of vintage electronic synthesisers and other recording equipment. In 2008, Benge released his tenth studio album ''Twenty Systems'', a concept album which featured twenty t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unfurnished Rooms
''Unfurnished Rooms'' is the ninth studio album by English band Blancmange, released in 2017. It was produced by Neil Arthur and Benge, and reached No. 40 on the UK Independent Albums Chart. The album was Blancmange's first release since ''First Light'', a 2017 collaborative album between Arthur and Benge, released under the name Fader. Speaking to ''MusicOMH'' in 2017, Arthur commented on Benge's involvement with ''Unfurnished Rooms'': "It was fantastic when he said he was up for getting involved. I'd written the songs and a lot of instrumentation. I put my electronic noises on, and the idea was for Benge to replace the rhythm area." Critical reception Upon release, Michael Hann of ''The Quietus'' described the album as "pleasing", adding: "...as if Blancmange have journeyed back to the early 1980s and taken a different turning". Paul Scott-Bates of ''Louder Than War'' summarised the album as "clever". He said: "It sees Neil Arthur on top form and putting together a listening e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, and the mid-1970s saw the rise of electronic art musicians. After the breakthrough of Gary Numan in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra introduced the TR-808 rhythm machine to popular music, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Peel
Hannah Mary Peel (born 27 August 1985) is a British artist, music producer, Mercury Music Prize and Emmy-nominated composer and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster. Her solo music is primarily electronic, synthesiser-based and often includes classical scoring and sound design, with references to the links between science, nature and music. She has scored music for television, film, theatre and dance, including ''Game of Thrones: The Last Watch'' (a special documentary). Apart from her solo work, Peel has worked with collaborators on projects including orchestrations and conducting for Paul Weller, an album with the poet Will Burns, and as a member of the psychogeography indie rock group The Magnetic North and the electronic music group John Foxx and the Maths. She has released solo records on her own imprint label, My Own Pleasure Records, including ''Fir Wave'', ''Awake But Always Dreaming'' and ''Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia''. Early life Peel was born in Craigavon, Northern Irel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louder Than War (website)
''Louder Than War'' is a music and culture website and magazine focusing on mainly alternative arts news, reviews, and features. The site is an editorially independent publication that was started by journalist John Robb in 2010 and is now run by a team of other journalists with a worldwide team of freelancers. There has been a print edition since 2015. The site is built around live reviews, album reviews and interviews. In 2012, ''Louder Than War'' launched a record label to promote and champion lesser known bands and artists. History In its first year, in November 2011, Robb was voted to win the UK Association of Independent Music "Indie Champion" award. Louder Than War created the record label Louder Than War Records in 2014, to act as a platform for bands and artists to reach a wider audience; the first release being Evil Blizzard 'The Dangers Remixes', a 300 copy CD only release without a catalogue number, each being hand numbered; the 8 track releases being a remix of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MusicOMH
MusicOMH (stylized as musicOMH) is a London-based online music magazine which publishes independent reviews, features and interviews from across all genres including classical, metal, rock and R&B. History MusicOMH was founded and launched by Editor in Chief Michael Hubbard in 1999. In February 2011 the site's former theatre section was spun off, becominExeunt Magazine as MusicOMH refocused from being a general arts publication to writing primarily about music. Main features and coverage MusicOMHs music content consists of reviews of albums, gigs, tracks and festivals, alongside features, interviews and blog posts. The site also provides live reviews and other features. The site's album reviews, usually covering a wide range of genres including pop, electro, classical, metal, rock and R&B, have been quoted by numerous publications such as ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Independent'' and the BBC. The site has also been used as one of many sources to accumulate aggregated revi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spill Magazine
''The Spill Magazine'' is a Canadian online magazine based in Mississauga, Ontario. It publishes music news, band interviews, album reviews, and live concert reviews from independent and mainstream artists across diverse genres and localities. It also offers select film and book reviews. The webzine was established in April 1994, by Arvin Kashyap who was at the time a disc jockey for the University of Toronto Mississauga's radio station, CFRE 91.9 FM. ''The Spill Magazine'' launched its first issue on May 20, 1994, digitally via the bulletin board system and through Usenet; it was also distributed through electronic mailing list, as well as physically through fax and floppy disk. It continued as a monthly digital publication, until it moved to its own .com The domain name .com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. Added at the beginning of 1985, its name is derived from the word ''commercial'', indicating its original in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeah Ghost
''Yeah Ghost'' is the fourth studio album by Zero 7, released in September 2009. The album features vocals by ESKA (on "Mr McGee", "Medicine Man", "Sleeper", and "The Road"), Martha Tilston (on "Pop Art Blue"), Binki Shapiro (on "Swing" and "Ghost Symbol"), Rowdy Superstar (on "Sleeper"), and Binns himself (on "Everything Up (Zizou)", an homage to French footballer Zinedine Zidane Zinedine Yazid Zidane (; born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He most recently coached Spanish club Real Madrid and is one of the most ...). Track listing References {{Authority control Zero 7 albums 2009 albums Atlantic Records albums Intelligent dance music albums Ambient albums by English artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zero 7
Zero 7 are an English musical duo consisting of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker. They began as studio engineers and in 1997 formed the group Zero 7. Their debut album, '' Simple Things'', was released in 2001 in which their song "Destiny" stayed in the top 100 of the UK Single Charts. Subsequent albums include ''When It Falls'', '' The Garden'', and ''Yeah Ghost''. After studying sound engineering, Binns and Hardaker began their careers in the music industry in the 1990s at Mickie Most's RAK recording studio in London, engineering music for British groups like Pet Shop Boys, Young Disciples, and Robert Plant. In 1997 they created a remix of the song "Climbing Up the Walls" by Radiohead (which was also the first time the name 'Zero 7' was used) and Binns received a credit for additional sampling on ''Kid A''. The pair also remixed Terry Callier's "Love Theme From Spartacus" and songs by Lenny Kravitz, Sneaker Pimps and Lambchop. History The name Zero 7 was chosen after Binns an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
