A To B

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Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 48:49

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Michelangelo Matos

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01.06.09
Miwon rubs welcome grit and glitch into his glassy, smooth electro
2008 | Label: City Centre Offices / Morr Music GBR

Sometimes you think you know where a song is going. The first time I listened to the title track of A to B, a lovely twinkle-electro album by Berlin producer Hendrik Kröz, a.k.a. Miwon, its gliding synth-bass line, jumpy beat pattern, sighing synth pads and keyboard line whose notes sound slightly bent, were sounding just fine on their own. Then, out of the song's lyric ("A to B/Always something, always"), the music shifted into a colder, warier mode, and one line jumped out: "You can go your own way/ You can call it another lonely day." Yep: Kröz had weaved one of Fleetwood Mac's biggest (and most pissed off) hits into his already bewitching brew. Surprise!

A move like that is typical of Kröz's gift for throwing a little grit into a sound that otherwise has a smooth sheen. The pulsating, dreamy headphones-house of "Matchbox" has a kind of neon glow that's cut into with some crackling glitches turned into percussion patterns; "Shinkansen" erects glassy landscapes of sustained low end and slow-rise synth tones, but it's the percussion like glossed lips smacking that moves it forward. And "More Guitar on the Monitor, Please" treats its lead instrument to loads of confident… read more »

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A to B

EMUSIC-01C9BBCD

I discovered this gem of an album just recently, and it made my day. Absolutely amazing music, very well-done, brilliant ...

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4 star

PLOVEX

it's interesting , but for two-three listenings.

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great new find

nonplusx

Subdued electro pop with smooth beats and glacial pads drenched in starlight. This should hold me over until the new Gui Boratto hopefully shows up.

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owlmerlyn

This is a great electro album. Very musical

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Hendrik Kröz, the Berlin-based electronic sound sculptor who records under the name Miwon, is back with his second full-length album. This one is both more wide-ranging and, in some ways, more accessible than Pale Glitter: on the one hand, the album’s opening track (“Shinkansen”) begins with birdsong and percussion before dissolving into pleasant chord washes and then giving way to nervous beats; on the other hand, the second track (“A to B”) starts out in a sort of soca/dubstep fusion mode with dubwise production elements, before eventually emerging as an abstract cover version of Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way.” If it were played for irony, the gesture would have been annoyingly hipsterish, but instead it comes across as a genuine if quirky homage. Elsewhere, “Round and Round” hints quietly at junglism, “They Leave in Autumn” builds both rhythm and ambience out of an almost all-glitch palette, and “Another Term For” is like a cloud version of an actual song, vague but pretty. On the other hand, “More Guitar on the Monitor, Please” tries to wring too much out of too few chords, and “Kisses to Cure” never builds up to anything much. But even the least interesting moments here are plenty enjoyable, and the most interesting ones border on revelatory. – Rick Anderson

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