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Track List
01) Star Time 2
02) The Coathanger
03) Open Society
04) A Real Woman
05) Delta-V
06) Aqueduct
07) Potential Govaner
08) Planet Gear
09) Tensor in Green
10) The Glass Road
11) Fluxgate
12) Duotone Moonbeam
13) Quadrature
14) Yes Sequitur
01) Star Time 2
02) The Coathanger
03) Open Society
04) A Real Woman
05) Delta-V
06) Aqueduct
07) Potential Govaner
08) Planet Gear
09) Tensor in Green
10) The Glass Road
11) Fluxgate
12) Duotone Moonbeam
13) Quadrature
14) Yes Sequitur
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4:08
1:38
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First Released
2008
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Just a Souvenir is an album by Squarepusher, which was released to the general listening public on October 27, 2008. The album had been available to purchase as a download from bleep.com on September 15, 2008.
The album originated in a daydream, in which Tom Jenkinson envisioned a rock band performing a concert against the backdrop of a large, glowing coathanger. The performance quickly became surreal: among other things, a river forces the band to kayak whilst performing; the guitarist is able to accelerate or decelerate time at will; and every drum in the drummer's kit begins to switch places with each another. As such, the majority of the album consists of Jenkinson's own version of jazz fusion, threaded through with classical guitar, math rock and funk recordings.
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While conflict is a state of mind that usually creates non-action because of its counter-balancing effect, in art, it can be a welcome situation for an artist to overcome; indeed the most thought-provoking work can often be the result of opposing forces.
The engaging dichotomy that reoccurs throughout the majority of Squarepusher's work, especially since 1998's Music is Rotted One Note, could be characterised as a futurist, post-rave impulse jostling with a formal training (and frightening talent) in freeform jazz. Though the organic and the electronic have never been mutually exclusive in Tom Jenkinson's world, Just A Souvenir offers perhaps the clearest indication that the party is indeed over. A regress to the Kaoss pad-assaulting excesses of 1997's seminal Hard Normal Daddy is not becoming of a man touted by sports sock-violating Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) as the best player in the world.
As befits an artist with unabashed prog tendencies, Jenkinson has a concept for his 11th record: ''a daydream about watching a crazy, beautiful rock band play an ultra-gig''. Sticking to the blueprint Just A Souvenir feels like his most 'live' record to date: awash with sustained rimshots, those infamous bass slaps and at times listless guitar plucks. A whole half-way through the anoraks are treated to their first drum edit (Potential Govaner) though this is a restrained affair.
Though Jenkinson's music can at times occupy a certain esoteric level of abstraction - in whose hallowed halls walk avant-garde jazz bods and ironic rave kids - his talent for a pop riff and melody can always offset the more marginal moments. A talent that began on his debut record with the opening salvo, Cooper's World (Bird Land Mk2 anyone?), prevailed on the mutant two-step of 2001's My Red Hot Car and reaches fruition on The Coathanger; the album's second track. Never one for comfort zones; where previously pent-up frustration would be exorcised by a blizzard of amens, on Delta-V and Planet Gear (the more aggressive moments here), manifest as scuzzed-out, space rock.
Though it pains to write it about an artist responsible for music so beautiful, too much of Just A Souvenir feels like you're standing in a lift with Jaco Pastorious rather than dancing in a field with your mates.
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Just a Souvenir is an album by Squarepusher, which was released to the general listening public on October 27, 2008. The album had been available to purchase as a download from bleep.com on September 15, 2008.
The album originated in a daydream, in which Tom Jenkinson envisioned a rock band performing a concert against the backdrop of a large, glowing coathanger. The performance quickly became surreal: among other things, a river forces the band to kayak whilst performing; the guitarist is able to accelerate or decelerate time at will; and every drum in the drummer's kit begins to switch places with each another. As such, the majority of the album consists of Jenkinson's own version of jazz fusion, threaded through with classical guitar, math rock and funk recordings.
User Album Review
While conflict is a state of mind that usually creates non-action because of its counter-balancing effect, in art, it can be a welcome situation for an artist to overcome; indeed the most thought-provoking work can often be the result of opposing forces.
The engaging dichotomy that reoccurs throughout the majority of Squarepusher's work, especially since 1998's Music is Rotted One Note, could be characterised as a futurist, post-rave impulse jostling with a formal training (and frightening talent) in freeform jazz. Though the organic and the electronic have never been mutually exclusive in Tom Jenkinson's world, Just A Souvenir offers perhaps the clearest indication that the party is indeed over. A regress to the Kaoss pad-assaulting excesses of 1997's seminal Hard Normal Daddy is not becoming of a man touted by sports sock-violating Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) as the best player in the world.
As befits an artist with unabashed prog tendencies, Jenkinson has a concept for his 11th record: ''a daydream about watching a crazy, beautiful rock band play an ultra-gig''. Sticking to the blueprint Just A Souvenir feels like his most 'live' record to date: awash with sustained rimshots, those infamous bass slaps and at times listless guitar plucks. A whole half-way through the anoraks are treated to their first drum edit (Potential Govaner) though this is a restrained affair.
Though Jenkinson's music can at times occupy a certain esoteric level of abstraction - in whose hallowed halls walk avant-garde jazz bods and ironic rave kids - his talent for a pop riff and melody can always offset the more marginal moments. A talent that began on his debut record with the opening salvo, Cooper's World (Bird Land Mk2 anyone?), prevailed on the mutant two-step of 2001's My Red Hot Car and reaches fruition on The Coathanger; the album's second track. Never one for comfort zones; where previously pent-up frustration would be exorcised by a blizzard of amens, on Delta-V and Planet Gear (the more aggressive moments here), manifest as scuzzed-out, space rock.
Though it pains to write it about an artist responsible for music so beautiful, too much of Just A Souvenir feels like you're standing in a lift with Jaco Pastorious rather than dancing in a field with your mates.
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