- When
- Dec 2012
This is a release on Type Records, the label I co-founded with John Xela. John was responsible for its musical output; I contributed in the first few years on design and running the label. The catalogue is archived here for posterity.
'Isolatarium', Brad Rose's second album under the Charlatan moniker, might be his most focused to date. Dispensing with the jerky 808-led shimmer of its predecessor 'Triangles', it makes its case with cold, digital synthesis and buried 4/4 pulses; the searing noise of Rose's output as The North Sea is still audible somewhere in the mix, but the key to this record is restraint. It almost sounds like a devastating new take on the delirious experiments of Maggi Payne or Suzanne Ciani, but with the added hoarse cough of 21st century pessimism.
Made at Type.
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