[No Pussyfooting] | Loppylugs

Submitted by Glyn Lewis on 17 February 2013 - 9:34pm

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Fripp & Eno

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The Heavenly Music Corporation*Swastika Girls

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Bean

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No+Pussyfooting/3960532

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noPussy

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Friday, 30 July 2010

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(No_Pussyfooting)

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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Music for gramophones

1-2

It’s possible to view old school ambient albums such as this as having just sprung from the ground, as if from nowhere, but this is an album that shows its English art rock heritage. You can hear some Hendrix sounding Fender and some more conventional elements that help to really underline the distance they have travelled. It may just be me but I get a real sense of the excitement that these fellas feel embarking on their journey into these new and unexplored territories.

The first track is largely one protracted electric guitar improvisation. However, this is noodling far removed the established blues rock palette – strange, yet elegant, even moving at times, in spite of Bob’s dry, over-intellectual reputation. The second is a more textural piece which ebbs and flows with a sparkling hypnotic insistence. I find this the most calming of music, more than more typical ambient music, probably partly because it is at a level at which you can’t just let it slip away into the background.

Although the sound may be relatively crude and basic, the live analogue rough edges give it a warmth of character missing from many modern works in this genre. And the potential and enthusiasm of these two archetypal über geeks is self evident, here at the very start.
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Richard Norbury
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reviewed by

Matthew Baker

An interesting album for someone who has heard a lot of Eno's output, but for me this album put the concept and experimentation before the music and the essential listenability that makes a lot of Eno's other work such a pleasure is mainly lacking here. I blame Robert Fripp
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

I fiddle with my equipment too

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Points are awarded for the originality of this music, which was clearly cutting edge and inspirational at the time. It does date quickly though once everyone else starts getting the idea... even I did stuff like this with my tape decks... and it was better too.