Friday, April 16, 2010

On the DECKS


"This curiously monikered electro-pop wunderkind makes intelligent dance music influenced by cerebral New York disco types like Talking Heads and LCD Soundsystem..."

mart is currently obsessed with New York singer, musician, producer and remixer Chris Glover aka Penguin Prision.

Animal, Animal – written and produced with his friend Noah Loha and recorded with mostly analogue equipment – while so bubbly it almost pops, has a detailed quality and rich tones that works with small and large speakers alike. It's been compared with everyone from Hot Chip to 1980s Howard Jones, and in a way Glover rescues naff electronica and gives it a cool makeunder. Faster and equally quirky-funky is A Funny Thing, which appears to feature a banjo riff but, Glover's vocal ranges superbly from low gruff rumble to girly falsetto while the song skips along.

The buzz: "He has the voice of an angel and is the best guitar player I know. He can do an amazing Aaron Neville impression. He's the total package, a one-man pop machine!"

Links: myspace.com/penguinprison

Look for some hot jams next Friday at the Get Down Riot Dance party at Bruar Falls.

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