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Review: 'Tapes'
'Finding'   

-  Album: 'Finding'
-  Genre: 'Dance' -  Release Date: '12th August 2014'

Our Rating:
Chillwave for tweakers, Tapes’ album ‘Finding’ is bursting with hectic loops and busy breakbeats, loaded with samples and little noodly doodly details, all wrapped in delicate synth washes and an analogue haze. Fair enough.

However, the pitchshifted vocal snippets soon get irritating, and while this type of audio manipulation and sample collaging may have once been innovative and clever, it’s 2014 and no longer especially interesting. It’s all been done, and done to death, and done better. Back in the 80s and even early 90s, it was all about exploring new technologies and their potentials. Now it just sounds like pointless fiddling and piddling about.

The songs aren’t especially structured, lack any overt linear progression and some clumsy rhythms and heavy-handed beats make the whole thing feel cobbled together. There’s a distinct lack of variety, too, with Tapes revealed as a one-trick pony and depressingly lacking in imagination or musical dexterity.

Tapes Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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