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Track Listings
| 1. Shower Melody |
| 2. Gluetooth |
| 3. 30 |
| 4. Trykk |
| 5. Fruit Touch |
| 6. ZOo00OOm |
| 7. Acoustic Lady |
| 8. Rising 5 |
| 9. Twistclip Loop |
| 10. Just Decided ft Olivier Daysoul |
| 11. No One Could Ever |
| 12. Velvet Peel |
| 13. Tell Me What You Want From Me ft DâM-FunK |
| 14. FUSE |
| 15. Star Crackout |
| 16. Allhot ft Nadsroic |
| 17. Black N Red |
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Review
It’s worth mentioning, mind, that Birchard has done his best to wriggle out of any genre category the critics have tried to place on his music. Worth mentioning, because Butter, his debut album for Warp, seems keener on exploring as much ground as possible rather than trying to crystallise any nascent sound. An opening rash of tracks suggests he gets a kick out of twisting sounds virtually out of recognition: the opening Shower Melody fires insane guitar soloing through a whirlpool of bubbling effects, while Gluetooth toys merrily with a chopped-up diva vocal pitched up so high that chipmunks would struggle to hear it, batting shrill squeals back and forth between humming synths and a thudding kick drum.
Butter isn’t without hints of Birchard’s turntablist past. Ideas come in flurries, sometimes discarded before they’ve had a chance to fully unfold. Joy Fantastic, an OutKast-tinged track fronted by bug-eyed soul vocalist Oliver Daysoul, is also not an unqualified success, playing it a little zany (although it might sit better amidst an album of similar).
Still, Butter as a whole feels like an impressive showcase for a sound that remains impressively slippery, and it’s worth staying tuned to the end for Allhot – a track featuring the wildly processed vocals of Glasgow vocalist Ciorsdan Brown that might just be the best future-RnB track to boast the Warp Records imprint since Aphex Twin’s Windowlicker. --Louis Pattison
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A: This album
One of the reasons, I think, why Warp records continues to flourish when many rival electronic labels have disappeared, is because they have done exactly what a techno label should do i.e. look to the future rather than go down the repackaging/remastering/"classics" road. With releases by Battles, Bibio and now this new Hudson Mohawke LP, Warp continue to break new ground.
"Butter" is densely packed with sonic ideas and in some ways quite difficult to get to grips with. It is experimental, but its pervading vibe of happiness makes it fairly easy to get into (much easier than, say, an Autechre release). The music is very difficult to categorise but it does bear a certain resemblance, at least spiritually, to Nightmares on Wax's debut album A Word of Science (hence the title of this review). There are moments of stop-what-you're-doing genius to be found, for example on "Shower Melody" and "Rising 5". It is also quite pop in places - "Tell Me What You Want From Me" sounds as though it could have been lifted straight from Quincy Jones' Back on the Block. Additionally there are periodic references to early 90s rave - on tracks like "Black n Red".
The whole piece serves as a showcase for Hudson Mohawke's production talent and I will be surprised if there are not better known, less talented artists out there trying to hook up with him even as I write this. On the evidence of "Butter" he deserves to go on to much bigger and better things.
It will grab you and shake you until you bleed glass and glitter all over your mums brand new rug!
I took a chance and purchased this album purely because of the album art, I had no expectations, I hadnt even heard of Hudson or his Mohawke before...
This guy really is from another planet. The beats are jagged, the synths are confused and the structure is almost non existant but it works and it never stops working! Im not even sure what genre of music this is but I dont care!
Take a chance and let him save you from yourself....kinda like a prehistoric digital Mother Teresa from the future.
Top three:
1.Fuse
2.Gluetooth
3.(the rest of the album)
5 stars!
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