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Review: 'OH! TIGER MOUNTAIN'
'The Start Of Whatever'   

-  Label: 'Microphone Recordings'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '28th February 2014'

Our Rating:
Is Mathieu Poulain a poseur? His website suggests the answer to this question is a resounding YES!

Here, the artist known as Oh!Tiger Mountain lists his influences as "electricity- reverberation-explosion" and a video espouses the virtues of randomness.

Musically, the crooning Frenchman is self consciously offbeat and claims to be carnivalesque.

With pseudo-psychedelic nods towards 60s pop and a freaky brand of folk, the sound lies in a sonic middle ground somewhere between Ariel Pink and Stereopathetic Soulmanure period Beck.

Poulain's eccentric, and frankly incoherent, use of English is evident on New Religion : "I must have fallen asleep some place between a bride and a commercial break", while on Your Most Prominent Son he sings obscurely of "A life worth living through the promise of a prowess"

So adept is he at creating an enigmatic image for himself that I found it difficult to feel any real engagement with the music.

Scratch the surface and there's rather less originality here than we are led to believe.

Oh! Tiger Mountain's website
  author: Martin Raybould

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OH! TIGER MOUNTAIN - The Start Of Whatever