Snap Hands for a tenner (1 Viewer)

[compactrisc]

We promised it to you months ago, and then again last week, and now it's finally here.

The Herv album, Snap Hands, is in Road Records now, and it'll be on sale for one week only for Eu 9.99. It'll also be available for the same price at the Thumped party tonight.

 

[compactrisc]

Forgot to add...

you get a free badge with the CD for the week as well...

 

[sinkorswim]

hurrah! .|..|

 

[mangler]

We promised it to you months ago, and then again last week, and now it's finally here.

The Herv album, Snap Hands, is in Road Records now, and it'll be on sale for one week only for Eu 9.99. It'll also be available for the same price at the Thumped party tonight.

Does this include mail-order, um, orders.

 

[billygannon]

First up we have an EP called The Friction of Distance by Without Being
Caught who is actually a bloke called Ewan Hennelly (possibly the coolest
second name in the world? I thought so.). Ewan's put together five
kickin' industrial-ish tracks with simple equipment (4-track, Amiga, drum
machine, keyboard etc) and it's pretty darn impressive!!
Track one, My Companion starts off with simple taps and clicks,
building up with more and more drums giving a real Autechre sound. There's
also a weird backwards bass synth noise in there which gives the whole
thing a slight 80's feel. Which isn't always a bad thing. The title track
isn't quite as good, it's got some really cool muffled breathing-type
industrial beats with some downbeat (almost depressing) strings but it's a
bit too slow and eh, not really interesting enough. But that's totally
made up for by the third untitled track which is just a huge pounding
crunchy industrial (again) beat-fest which goes on for a while, until just
when you start getting a headache these wavy strings come in for the last
minute or too. Sounds really professional.
An Unattainable Entity is quite a relief to the heavy beats of
track three, nice warm sounds with some louder beats near the end picking
the song up a bit. And the last one, Red Bridge 4, wouldn't look out of
place on Seleceted Ambient Works, with it's scary space sounds, low
background hums and general ambient feel.
So an excellent industrial/ambient five tracks there from The
Friction of Distance, track three being my favourite. I actually got this
tape ages ago but only got around to reviewing it now due to the
infinitely long hours of my job so sorry for the delay there Ewan. *grin*

A blast from the past

 

[herv]

The Friction of Distance

1st year Geography in UCD was deadly for track names

 

[nlgbbbblth]

happy accidents

 

[old]

Had me first proper listen to Snap Hands last night.

Top jums, Herv.

 

[herv]

thank you old sir.

 

[sarah]

thank you old sir.

I'm currently force feeding it to people here in Berlin.
Dance or Die!
I also owe you a tenner

 

[herv]

Now also available in Freebird Records, The Secret Book and Record Store, Spindizzy, City Discs and Selectah.

Go Buy!

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Now also available in Freebird Records, The Secret Book and Record Store, Spindizzy, City Discs and Selectah.

Go Buy!

I see Matthew Magee reviewed this in Sunday (Someday?) Tribune magazine yesterday!baggyyyy

 

[herv]

I see Matthew Magee reviewed this in Sunday (Someday?) Tribune magazine yesterday!baggyyyy

yarrs

he didn't like it. i suppose there wasn't enough rock in it.

but he liked that charlotte church type person!

 

[thegoone]

hes probably a smelly old man
what do prunes now about chewns anyway

 

[Ed]

He's not that old, may not even be as old as some of the folks who post on thumped

 

[pete]

He's not that old, may not even be as old as some of the folks who post on thumped

hello

 

[Ed]

uh, hi

 

[billygannon]

Talk about a shit review. That guy shouldn't be reviewing music. It's like someone reviewing a car without knowing how to drive. Paul Watts' review in Anorak is much better.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

what did the review say?

andrew

 

[herv]

what did the review say?

andrew

it didn't mention anything really about the music, it just talked about it being a collection of wierd sounds which were interesting once but didn't bear up to repeated listening. that kind of baffled me.

oh, what i did kinda like (despite the fact that it was presumably meant in a negative way) was his comment about it being the kind of music that people might be proud to own, rather than listen to.

i just have all these images of people stockpiling the album and keeping it in ziploc bags and stuff.