○○○○●FRENCHMAN Wax Tailor's blend of trip hop and hip hop, thrip hop if you will, that is Hope And Sorrow finally gets a UK release next month.
The Tailor-made sophomore album from Wax, whose real name is the decidedly Gallic Jean-Christophe Le Saoût, sees a select group of carefully-selected collaborators - such as funk vocalist Sharon Jones and rappers The Others - join the DJ for a slick, cinematic outing.
The result is a mixture of rich, textured, string drenched beats and head-nodding hip hop that proves there's life for trip hop beyond the city limits of Bristol.
Criminy, I'm an old fart when it comes to music. But there is some terrific graphic design on these album covers, worth looking at even if one desn't know the music. This and 36 Crazyfists are my favorites from what you've posted. Our culture definitely lost something when it first shrunk, then eliminated entirely packaging of recorded music.
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I agree wholeheartedly - although I'm a bit too young to appreciate the vinyl experience, the leap from a physical package (CDs mainly in my case) to a digital download without any of the accompanying bumph is more than a bit sad.
ReplyDeleteI am a purist though - just ask my girlfriend who has to put up with reams and reams of CDs cluttering up our house.
After all, a decent piece of cover art can sell me an album that I haven't ever heard of.
The rebirth of vinyl as a nostalgia item among music listeners in their twenties is an interesting phenomenon because it was arguably the success of Napster -- an invention of youngsters, I think -- that led to the disappearance of vinyl and hence of packaging and of album art.
ReplyDeleteThe disappearance of vinyl as a mass medium for recorded music has practical consequences as well as aesthetic ones. Opera listeners would often enjoy the printed libretto that came with their albums. Librettos are often printed in four languages, with parallel texts. That makes for an awful lot of page-turning when the pages are reduced to the size of a CD box, and the pages disappear together, of course, with digital downloads.
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Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
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