Vinyl Studies

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Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 45:53

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Amelia Raitt

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Amelia Raitt is a former writer for the television program Mr. Belvedere and has been writing about pop music of all colors and stripes for eMusic since 2005. S...more »

04.22.11
Sonogram, Vinyl Studies
Label: Simulacra Records

When he's not busy running Simulacra Records, making stygian ambient under the name Tear Ceremony, or cutting hushed indie rock as Crushed Stars, Todd Gautreau sleeps. He does this, presumably, to get inspiration for his other project: Sonogram. On this, the fourth album under the name, Gautreau continues in the same vein as his previous work. The tracks are short, vignettes similar to the self-contained compositions of Boards of Canada or the dearly departed Plone — proving that ambient doesn't need to be lengthy to be involving. He simply takes one idea, gently mulls over its possibilities and then abandons it in favor of another. Contemplative, otherworldly, and bewitching, it's the stuff of dreams.

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Listen to the music, forget the category

dingurupa1

Me thinks people should just listen to the music and enjoy it rather than worrying about the category.

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Fantastic Album

Pablobear

This is a fantastic album. I am so glad that eMusic choose the first track on here (Decoder) to be their Daily Download for today (January 6, 2007) so that I could discover this album. I also think the categorization that eMusic applied (or the label applied - however that works) is very accurate, although they might have also added Trip-Hop. Enjoy.

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The eMusic Reviewer Amelia Raitt Got It Right

AnnaL

Amelia Raitt's review is spot on the "Contemplative, otherworldly, and bewitching, it’s the stuff of dreams." I downloaded and love the whole album.

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sounds good, poorly categorized

Dylan

From the 30-second snippets I managed to hear, downtempo, electronic ambient and lounge are pretty poor categories for this album. I realize electronica subgenres are pretty arbitrary, but if an artist is going to get any traction in this crazy world that is eMusic, they should be careful with genre-tags. As it is, this album falls prey to emusic's stingy download limits for me -- I'd check these tracks out if they were free, but I'm not compelled to pay for them based on the samples.

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