The 10” seems to be becoming the vinyl format of choice at the moment: allowing more room than a 7” but with less dead space than a 12”, there's also something pretty sexy about the 10”, and Melt Famas' 'Serial Weather' EP is exactly what the format is all about.
'Heart of Glass' sounds like She Wants Revenge doing an impersonation of Suicide covering Blondie. It's kinda whacky, kinda strange and kinda cool, in equal measure. It's hardly surprising: Melt Famas is the latest project of Fred Bigot, who's perhaps better known by his Electronicat moniker and has remixed or colluded with everyone from Depeche Mode to Jim 'Foetus' Thirlwell.
The other two tracks are less extraordinary, but provide a significant contrast to the lead track: gentle, tempered instrumentals without percussion or rhythm, they're not strictly ambient, but then, they're not overtly experimental or anything else for that matter.. The second of these instrumentals, 'Ice Age Fire Cage' occupies the whole of side 2, running for over eleven minutes, weaving delicate, vaporous contrails of delicately flanged and phased sound through the air before slowly disappearing.
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