Love your Remix Album
Posted by Christian Carey in Alternative, CD Review, File Under?, Uncategorized
Lymbyc System
Love Your Abuser Remixed
Mush Records CD MH-261
www.dirtyloop.com
Sometimes, one wonders whether remix albums have a tendency towards “placeholder” status. Do they add anything significant to a band’s catalog, or are they merely a way to bide time until the next release is ready? In the case of Love Your Abuser Remixed, Lymbyc Systym and a collection of electronica collaborators have crafted imaginative reworkings that make the CD well worth attention as a “proper” release rather than a “placeholder.”
The band’s own remix of “Birds” suggests that their overall vision for the project was to impart a more ambient sensibility to the music. Cohorts like Album Leaf and Bibio share this sentiment, layering repeating ostinati and washes of harmony in aurally pleasing fashion. There’s still variation to be had; Daedelus’s remix of “So We Can Sleep” interpolates subversive twittering chatter between wide swaths of chordal vamps; Eliot Lipp’s version of “Pittsburgh Left” features his trademark glitchy-yet-danceable vibe. The total is a pleasing collection that rivals the album proper.
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