Pluramon

PLURAMON Dreams Top RockThis is the recycled future of everything. Julee Cruise returns to my world, and in a very obvious way the spirit of Loveless returns to my world. A great and passionate 39 minutes; disturbing but finally flying above the strings which tether us to the old world. Keith Rowe comes in at the exact point when he’s needed. And, as with my reissue of the year, it was a record which wasn’t just sent to me; I had to go out and get wet to find it. And, as in 1991, I find that actually I don’t want to spoil it by writing yet more words about it; I just want to listen to the music, to love to the music, to live with the music, to return to the way I used to experience music; with an audience of just one other. So, if you don’t mind, I plan to do that for a while.

If you need an explanation, Dreams Top Rock is my album of the year because listening to it is like having my entire life returned to me. … »

Charms Music Clerk, as Cologne based Marcus Schmickler anagrammatises himself on the credits of this third Pluramon album, should not be so quick to hide his lights under a bushel. Pluramon has always been one of the more unpredictable and interesting projects to stem from the fertile jungle of sounds that has been bred in the furtive community of friends centred around Cologne´s A-Musik and Sonig labels for the past 15 years or so. But this album, the first under the Pluramon banner since 1998´s Render Bandits (not counting it´s remix version album Bit Sand Riders), is just about the best avant pop/noise record to emerge from the independent sector since My Bloody Valentine´s Isn´t Anything. … »