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Broken SpindlesInside/Absent Saddle Creek/Stomp It's been an absurdly good year for Saddle Creek. Of course, to start the year with a double release from their most famous artist, Bright Eyes, would have set them up anyway. But after two solo releases from former members of Azure Ray, we now have the latest album from Broken Spindles: an album by one bloke, a collection of instruments and a laptop computer. We're going to get a lot more of this stuff, and 'Inside/Absent' could be a decent blueprint for what's to come. Although not as supremely high achieving as Clue To Kalo's 'One Way, It's Every Way', 'Inside/Absent' is full of great ideas, sparse instrumentation and interesting asides. My only real complaint about this album is that the asides are often much more interesting than the songs themselves, which suffer from being just a little too simple. Oh, and I'm sorry, but the guy can't sing - and no amount of reverb and digital manipulation can make me want to hear him try. Still, the bizarre piano composition that opens this record, Inward, is amazing. The almost Trent Reznor-esque Please Don't Remember This is a very disturbing electronic piece. The next piano piece, Desaturated, has an amazing and haunting melody. The Distance Is Nearsighted would have been a hit single twenty years ago, followed by another piano piece, Valentine, which would do well as the backing track to that suspenseful moment just before the crazed killer appears with the knife... Actually, here's an idea, Mr. Broken Spindles. Stop writing songs. Let's have a whole album of these marvellous piano compositions. How does that sound to you?  |
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