Candied Pop

Hello.

Thanks of the invitation of the webmasters of this delicious Candied Pop, I am here.

First of all, I will ask to you to be indulgent : english is not my mother tongue. Le français est ma langue maternelle.
OK, because of this lack of skill and knowledge of language, I am not able to write so subtle and long reviews than my friends.
But, OK also, it will not be my aim. My aim is to try to promote some european albums that deserve a recommendation and aren’t probably not available in States. And I am well placed for this, living in Belgium!!!

I swear : I will never review an album yet reviewed on AMG or Pitchfork…

For the beginning, an pan-european album. “Unwound From The Wood” is released on the belgian label Quatermass. The members of the band are the Scottish singer and composer Luke Sutherland and German electro musicians Volker Bertelmann and Stefan Schneider. The first was the singer of the indie band Long Fin Killie that made excellent romantic albums in the late 90s (the excellent Amelia from 1998 is available on eMusic). The german musicians are in bands like Hauschka, To Rococo Rot and Mapstation.

It was not easy to imagine a crossover between these guys. Sutherland has one of the beautiful voice of the romantic rock. His voice is just like wind in autumnal trees (wow, piece of poetry!). The german are playing some mechanical and very interesting electro pop. Sometimes, 1 + 1 = 1. Sometimes, 2. Here, it’s three. This album can be compare (but in better) with some works of Lali Puna and Styrofoam. The plus is the voice of Sutherland. He is known also as a good novelist as I read. Than, I hope you will have this pleasure of the good language.

Hoping you will find it. Available on Boomkat. You can stream some tracks here.

(OK, next time I will try to put the cover and some links; Paris ne s’est pas fait en un jour!)

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