The New Face of Smiling [Enhanced]

Product Description
In 2002, we called it Nu-Indie. That pissed people off (who knew?). At the time, New Zealand's Bevan Smith successfully married the digital and analog worlds with SIGNER'S Low Light Dreams. Now the honeymoon is over and this couple is in it for the long haul. No longer are the two distinct; they have become one. Bevan spent some time listening to his favorite indie slow-jams (JOY DIVISION, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, Laughingstock-era TALK TALK et.al) and decided he should make the first proper fuzzed-out pop gem of the 21st century. SIGNER’S The New Face of Smiling chews on all of Bevan's experience in indie bands and electronica and spits them back out into something brand new yet somehow familiar. Those with a sense of humor can call it "Nu-Gazing."

The New Face of Smiling,Signer,Carpark Records,Ambient Techno,Dance Music,Experimental Dub,Experimental Techno,Pop,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: This is My Face Smiling, thanks Signer.

The New Face of Smiling Signer Manufacturer: Carpark Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002J4870 Release Date: 2004-09-14

Tracks:

1. Low Light Sleep
2. Hurricane Or Sunshine?
3. I Was Dressed As The Ant, You Dressed Up As A Beehive
4. Machines At Low Tide
5. Frozen Cut Grass
6. You're Killing Us Helen
7. That Sinking Feeling As Key Metal Hits Thigh Flesh
8. Komputa Ga Bukowarera
9. The Overwhelming Power Of Friendship
10. Your Ears Across The Fences

Album Description

In 2002, we called it Nu-Indie. That pissed people off (who knew?). At the time, New Zealand's Bevan Smith successfully married the digital and analog worlds with SIGNER'S Low Light Dreams. Now the honeymoon is over and this couple is in it for the long haul. No longer are the two distinct; they have become one. Bevan spent some time listening to his favorite indie slow-jams (JOY DIVISION, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, Laughingstock-era TALK TALK et.al) and decided he should make the first proper fuzzed-out pop gem of the 21st century. SIGNER'S The New Face of Smiling chews on all of Bevan's experience in indie bands and electronica and spits them back out into something brand new yet somehow familiar. Those with a sense of humor can call it "Nu-Gazing."

Customer Reviews:

This is My Face Smiling, thanks Signer........2005-06-24

Signer's new album is not genre defying it is genre surpassing. Taking the precision and control that electronica has over music and infusing it with an indie-guitar sound that threatens to tear the controls loose, which it then does, then relinquishes. Whether in the space of the shortest sub 2-minute songs, where the fight is most obvious and intense, exquisite electronic beat poetry, to the lush longer pieces where the analog and electronic worlds seem to be having more of a philosophical debate than a scrap. Its accessibility intrigues on first listen and with subsequent repeats you find yourself wanting to take sides as you discover the depths of elements poured into it. Until you realise that this album is a rare thing indeed in this subgenre splintered world, just great... "music".

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