Pretty Swell Explode, by Odd Nosdam (CD on Anticon)
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Description: | CD on Anticon | |
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| Format: | CD | ||
| Label: | Anticon | ||
| Price: | £10.79 | ||
| Catalogue number: | ABR0085CD | ||
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What you sayNo-one has reviewed Pretty Swell Explode by Odd Nosdam yet.
What the label says:Inimitable producer Odd Nosdam returns with Pretty Swell Explode, an
enhanced two-disc collection (one album, one EP) of remixes, B-sides,
videos, and original songs, including eight tracks entirely exclusive
to this set. Here Nosdam compiles the odds and ends created mostly
around his last two fulllengths (2005’s Burner and last year’s Level
Live Wires), as well as a few choice gems from bygone days. The first
disc is bombastic and beat-blown, and well displays Nosdam’s impressive
range as a remix artist. Two of the record’s strongest pieces are
remixes created solely for this project. “(growin’ up in the Hood) Four
Thousand Style” is Nosdam’s electric tribute to Leeds cult heroes Hood
(fronted by Chris Adams, who records for Anticon as Bracken). A year of
work and various snippets from the Hood catalogue went into the
crunchy, spooked-out opus, with Adams’s words disembodied and scrambled
into the heaving song body. On “Forever Heavy (shoegangter/JB remix),”
Nosdam actually recreates a Black Moth Super Rainbow original from
scratch. Drum machine maestro Jel (Subtle/Themselves) adds a few pounds
and Flying Saucer Attack collaborator Jessica Bailiff sings ghostly
overtop, recalling Stereolab caught in a heavy swirl of fuzz, grind,
and unusual beauty. In fact, Bailiff’s voice is a binding element of
Pretty Swell Explode’s first half, a compilation that plays like a true
album. The second disc is Nosdam’s ambient EP, exchanging drums and
voice for the fuzzy warmth of eight-track cassete composition.
Burner-era B-side “My Prayer Rug” rocks a slow and steady crystalline
stomp that morphs into the blissed-out record-skip trip of “Bear Hug”
(exhumed from the cLOUDDEAD days) before reaching the nine-minute,
four-chambered remix suite, “Dayvan Cowboy,” originally by Boards of
Canada. This hard-fought multi-movement reinvention moves between
intensity and quiet like seasons or the sea (and an unused selection
from this remix, “D C (bit)” can be found on disc one.) Fittingly,
“20th” carries the listener to the record’s finish on a broad swell.
Accompanying these blasted sounds are three videos. Recent single “Kill
Tone” (from Level Live Wires) is given a suitably exuberant treatment
courtesy of Ravi Zupa; Skhoinarion weaves a kaleidoscopic collage to
the “Dayvan Cowboy” remix (originally an unsolicited YouTube video);
Spencer Williams, one-half of Portland ambient duo Drape, constructs a
slow rain of Fourthworthy fireworks display around Burner’s “Clouded.”
The limited vinyl edition of Pretty Swell Explode also includes a
hidden unreleased version of Nosdam’s Lee Perry-inspired “Upsetter.” |
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