New Oval Album

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The album has leaked. It's great. Very much a massively expanded version of the Oh EP but the beat-drive first half is - thankfully - rather less beat-driven and rather more abstract than I feared. My only criticism is that he's making a lot of music with a very limited sound palette, so it gets a bit samey. But then that's nothing new.

 

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Update:

Well, I finally have it on (white) vinyl. The tracks from CD1 are spread across sides one to three and there are six vinyl-only bonus tracks on side four. You get the 50 "ringtones" from CD2 as a free download.

I was a little concerned about how the album would work minus the ringtones. Actually, it works wonderfully well. The tracks are rather more abstract than the ones on side one of the 12", so they're not actually that different from the ringtones - just longer and more structured. Now that I'm used to them, the beats have started to make sense too, as a vital part of the overall sonic landscape.

http://bubblegumcage3.com/2010/08/28/oval-o-thrill-jockey-2cd/
http://bubblegumcage3.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/08-brahms-mania.mp3
http://bubblegumcage3.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/12-i-heart-musik.mp3