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- Original Release Date: 27 May 2007
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. Look At The Sky (Rob McVey Version) | 5:45 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 2. Medusa (Edit) | 4:36 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 3. Gone Forever (Robin Guthrie Version) | 5:45 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 4. On My Own (Robin Guthrie Version) | 6:56 | £0.69 |
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If you are a big fan of Ulrich Schnauss, then it is certainly worth buying this EP. More shimmering ecstatic feel-good music from the master of whatever shoegaze/electronica hybrid you decide to label his music. Sure, there are a few covers/reworkings of old tunes but they sound fresh, intricate and sweeping in a way that gives them a character of their own.
If you are new to his stuff best work chronologically through his back catalogue as it's all very very good.
If you are new to his stuff best work chronologically through his back catalogue as it's all very very good.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Finally, Ulrich Schnauss is coming back. The electro-shoegazer artist has a new album coming out, and in anticipation of it, has turned out a "Quicksand Memory," which mingles his customary shimmering electronic expanses and dreamy ambient melodies.
It kicks off with "Look At the Sky," a shimmering wintry song that constantly expands in a flurry of ringing guitars and murmuring female vocals. It's a bit like listening to angels in a rainstorm, which becomes a thunderstorm in the lo-fi-ish, melodiously chaotic "Medusa."
Then it's back to the mellow soundscapes in "Gone Forever," which sticks to ambient electronica and some gentle cycling guitars, never quite going anywhere. And finally there's "On My Own," a rather peculiar mixture of wavering, creaking synth and meandering melodies and vocals. It always sounds ready to go where somewhere, but never does.
Basically "Quicksand Memory" exists to whet the appetite for Schnauss's next full-length album, which is going to drop pretty soon. And it does what it's supposed to, while showing that Schnauss is sticking to what he does best -- ambient melodies and gentle electro-dreampop, which lulls without becoming boring.
The album is awash in a gentle, smooth, warm wash of keyboard, which can swell out to epic proportions, tremble coldly, or simple ooze along pleasantly like a sonic lullaby. It can even get vaguely scratchy and angular, especially with paired with drum machines and those cycling, echoing guitars. And Schnauss weaves in some soft, murmuring vocals that never say much more than "aaahhhh ahhhhh."
The "Quicksand Memory" EP is a good lead-in to Schnauss's new album, and a good introduction to this electro-showgazer's dreamlike work. Definitely worth hearing, despite its brevity.
It kicks off with "Look At the Sky," a shimmering wintry song that constantly expands in a flurry of ringing guitars and murmuring female vocals. It's a bit like listening to angels in a rainstorm, which becomes a thunderstorm in the lo-fi-ish, melodiously chaotic "Medusa."
Then it's back to the mellow soundscapes in "Gone Forever," which sticks to ambient electronica and some gentle cycling guitars, never quite going anywhere. And finally there's "On My Own," a rather peculiar mixture of wavering, creaking synth and meandering melodies and vocals. It always sounds ready to go where somewhere, but never does.
Basically "Quicksand Memory" exists to whet the appetite for Schnauss's next full-length album, which is going to drop pretty soon. And it does what it's supposed to, while showing that Schnauss is sticking to what he does best -- ambient melodies and gentle electro-dreampop, which lulls without becoming boring.
The album is awash in a gentle, smooth, warm wash of keyboard, which can swell out to epic proportions, tremble coldly, or simple ooze along pleasantly like a sonic lullaby. It can even get vaguely scratchy and angular, especially with paired with drum machines and those cycling, echoing guitars. And Schnauss weaves in some soft, murmuring vocals that never say much more than "aaahhhh ahhhhh."
The "Quicksand Memory" EP is a good lead-in to Schnauss's new album, and a good introduction to this electro-showgazer's dreamlike work. Definitely worth hearing, despite its brevity.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I'm not quite sure what to make of this "teaser" for Ulrichs new album... The sound is universally murky and the severely distorted, everything including the kitchen sink, mix of sounds, goes further down the path set by his last CD outing and jarrs with this listener, preventing me to access the music quickly... Repeated listening does bring its benefits, however and after a few goes, I think I've now "got it" enough to thoroughly enjoy what's on offer here.
I read that Ulrich was trying to mix 100 individual tracks (in places) into two and this may be the reason for the cluttered up sound. A decent playback system is going to be essential if any sense is to be made of it - less is often more dear boy...
The two remixes are interesting, but don't add anything in my view to the originals - "On My Own" in its original album version being one of my favourite US tracks. To be fair, I've had a soft spot for Robin Guthrie's guitar sounds, but feel he should have been there at the original recording & mixing stage, rather than adding and altering bits way afterwards.
I'll still buy the new album though, hoping that the sound will be a bit clearer, as Ulrich is a master at what he does and I've also read that the new album needs time to appreciate it, for the music to insinuate itself into the listener. I just think his music doesn't need such a complex mix and works best going straight to the heart without bypassing to the Brain first....
I read that Ulrich was trying to mix 100 individual tracks (in places) into two and this may be the reason for the cluttered up sound. A decent playback system is going to be essential if any sense is to be made of it - less is often more dear boy...
The two remixes are interesting, but don't add anything in my view to the originals - "On My Own" in its original album version being one of my favourite US tracks. To be fair, I've had a soft spot for Robin Guthrie's guitar sounds, but feel he should have been there at the original recording & mixing stage, rather than adding and altering bits way afterwards.
I'll still buy the new album though, hoping that the sound will be a bit clearer, as Ulrich is a master at what he does and I've also read that the new album needs time to appreciate it, for the music to insinuate itself into the listener. I just think his music doesn't need such a complex mix and works best going straight to the heart without bypassing to the Brain first....
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