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Review
of 'a present from the future' from Vital weekly:
Stray
Dog Army is a label run by James Brewster, who is also the man behind
Mole Harness. I didn't hear his first album 'All Your Memories Return
At Once', which was released in early 2004 on Float/Silent Age.
It was made with a 'basic sampler', but for his second record he
uses the computer. Not that I initially thought so. I started playing
this and thought this was all made with guitars, electric and acoustic,
and some delay machines. But not so, it seems, and that is quite
an achievement. Mole Harness uses the original played sources on
indeed a guitar and bass, but he layers the processed parts into
some wonderful nice ambient music. The whole digital/computer notion
appears in such a way that it is hardly noticed. The eight pieces
float gently by in a harmonic and atmospheric way. The weather is
cold outside, but sunny and Mole Harness delivers a perfect soundtrack
for such conditions and it's a beautiful sunday morning wake up
record, recovering with a hangover.
Frans
de Waard
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