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Mewgatz - Love Songs and Car Boot Electronica

Review by Dan Cooper-Gavin

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following the critically acclaimed 'underfelt' ep in 2007 mewgatz is now ready to release his debut album 'love songs and car boot electronica'. falling somewhere between the magnetic fields, casiotone for the painfully alone and squarepusher, these rich and subversive musical compositions are brought to life by mewgatz trademark humble and bittersweet lyrics. themes of lost and found love and his continuing frustration at his dependency upon the modern technology which makes his music. breaking up the tender vocal tracks are two melodic instrumental tracks each based around the concept of 'one instrument song'. with the intention of showcasing the musical autonomy of mewgatz' electronic creations, he exploits the cavernous sonic capabilities of his abused second hand synthesizers to create complete soundscapes from just a single instruments output. the artwork was designed by the seminal chicago cartoonist jeffrey brown whose autobiographical comic books such
as clumsy, unlikely and little things have sold in excess of 20,000 copies worldwide. here on 'love songs and car boot electronica' jeffrey brown offers both a rare six panel full-colour digipak as well as a 16 page album interpretation comic book as the insert liner notes. for fans of: magnetic fields, squarepusher, john vanderslice, the notwist and matmos.
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