The Electric Soft Parade Reviews
Alt Sounds – 11th June 2013
Following last months delectable, downbeat ‘Brother, You Must Walk Your Path Alone’, Thomas and Alex White turn up the volume this time, cartwheeling through verse after breezy verse before the chorus of the hugely catchy ‘Summertime In My Heart’ kicks out the jams. Coming on like a hybrid of Hamburg-era…
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Music OMH – 13th June 2013
Tom and Alex White were just teenagers when they released Holes In The Wall, Electric Soft Parade‘s Mercury-nominated debut; mere slips of lads whose accomplished sound was always at odds with their tender years, especially in stellar singles like Silent To The Dark, There’s A Silence and Empty At The…
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WFMU
I can’t quite figure this disc out–it’s a group of transcendent takes on the music of the already transcendent Steve Reich; perhaps it’s an amazingly intelligent “tribute” album or an album of covers, but no–it’s much more than that. In a nutshell, it seems to be revised versions and acoustic…
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Rip It Up
This is ambient music so if you don’t dig this stuff read something else right now. I found this to be a fantastic work of love. It’s the delicate, intricate mathematics of the soul. On the inside cover it said ‘play quietly’, so I did and immediately it soothed me….
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Mojo
“Play quietly” the liner notes suggest. We’re in ambient territory. Noted producer Chris Hughes (Tears For Fears, Robert Plant, etc.) has based this album on works by seminal composer Steve Reich, however, so it’s a genuinely intelligent deconstruction of rhythm and sound patterns rather than mere New Age meanderings. Of…
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The Guardian – 4th July 2008
*** What was unusual about Chris Hughes’s 1994 album of Steve Reich adaptations was that it avoided the more obvious dance-friendly directions of the Little Fluffy Clouds era in favour of the early, hardcore stuff. Hughes used the might of 90s music technology to reimagine Drumming and Piano Phase for…
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Rocksucker – 1st June 2013
Brothers Alex and Thomas White contributed to one of Rocksucker’s favourite albums of last year as part of The Pure Conjecture, and now they’re back with IDIOTS, their first album as The Electric Soft Parade since 2007′s No Need to Be Downhearted. They’ve burrowed even further into our favour now,…
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