This Morning Call #2

Tour 12/12/07 ALL FM NightMoves Show - Live Set Manchester 12/21/07 Enchanted Brave, Britons Protection - Special Xmas Show Manchester Sounds Like Goldfrapp, Moby, David Bowie, A-ha, Boards of Canada, Doctor Who music, Matmos, Bjork, Blue Sky Research, The Whip, Snowfight in the City Centre, Moloko, Maximo Park, Minorplanet, Radiohead, Blue Cell, Aphex Twin, Strength of the Bear, Blur, Klaxons, Field Music, Olly Farshi, Sancho, Guillimots, Kylie Minogue, Posthuman, DJ Shadow, Idle Hands Links This Morning Call http://weheartmus... Influences "Think Sigur Ros stealing Keanes vocals underpinned by glitched up Groove Armada style...

I wasn't really going to follow up on Ryan's summation of This Morning Call, because it was pretty thorough, but I thought the world really needed to know how a friend of mine described 'Clockwork': 'Portishead on decent anti-depressants'.

(Yes, that is a positive endorsement.)

Since Ryan's gone into the wider contextual stuff, I'll stick mostly to the technical aspects. If you're a fan of sweeping electronic landscapes, ambient pop-edged melodies and the occasional dark crunchy beat, start paying attention. This Morning Call take the atmospheric aspects of Coldplay which stop them being purely guilty easy listening, channel them through the bleeps and angular squawks of the New Order/Daft Punk school, and produce an experimental, light, sweet electronica.

I'll admit that, as a devoted electronica fan of the VNV Nation kind, it was their subtle, layered use of distortion, metallic echoes and computer-generated loops which won me over, but it touches base with pop often enough that it doesn't alienate (which is a big risk in electronic music). Sometimes, actually, This Morning Call goes the other way entirely, and trades so much on classic pop structures that it seems almost unambitious. Delicate balance, but they're getting there.

Anyway. New word from the band is that they had a well-received, sold-out first gig run by Sony/BMG in London on December the 1 st- so hurry up and check them out before they explode onto the wider scene, because that's looking increasingly likely.

 12/04/2007 17:51:31  jennifer my♥posts www.thismorningcall.co.uk