Lend Me Your Underbelly - Hover

  by Maarten Schiethart

published: 4 / 5 / 2015

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Rather vague and pretentious, this time-consuming exercise merges urban field recordings and studio noodlings. It is pleasantly disturbing though, as if a tubeway platform musician has almost managed to stop an oncoming train. Indecipherable words ruin the tranquillity of opening track 'Everything',just when it could have become a battle between the Penguin Café Orchestra and Origamibiro. A wee bit too self-indulgent in its vocals, its bright strengths, however, pertain during the closing minutes of the second track, 'Was'. The album's five track titles read as one sentence by the way: "Everything Was Deep Dark Green". The fourth track, 'Dark', becomes mysteriously sinister in its latter stage. Diabolic bird twittering is thrown up against a stream of fine tuned folktronica now, and this marks one of the few genuine surprises. The album embraces the combined wealths of field and home computer recordings but fails to deliver an original brew. File under Urban Rainbow Forest Recordings.

Track Listing:-

1 Everything
2 Was
3 Deep
4 Dark
5 Green

Band Links:-

http://lendmeyourunderbelly.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/lendmeyourunderbelly
http://www.lendmeyourunderbelly.com/#homer
https://soundcloud.com/lend-me-your-underbelly

Label Links:-

http://www.epigenetic-records.com/

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