The Dutch magazine Fret reviews three Narrominded releases in their January/February issue. On Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World: ‘This other other green world doesn’t make you happy; hopefully this gloomy undertone isn’t a prediction for the near future. But besides that, this compilation is cool, relaxed, deep and groovy.’ [read more] They were a little less enthousiastic about Slow Country for Old Men by Psychon: ‘A carefully composed diary that never actually gets exciting, but nonetheless is nice to listen to.’ [read more] However, they recommend Korrels by Living Ornaments: ‘A firm and powerful piece of work.’ [read more] Belgian e-zine Kwadratuur is also very excited about Korrels: ‘The two sound doctors behind this project are very talented.’ And last but not least, the radio program Beautiful Extremes again played some Narrominded tracks: Here Is the Night (Another Version by Spoelstra) by Hunter Complex from the Here Is the Night EP and Huppy Capsule by Garçon Taupe from Split LP #4. Listen to the fragment from the broadcast on January 19 in the player below.
‘We go cloud-sailing, gazing into the far miles of the sky ahead with a delicate, heavenly spray on our faces, which soon overwhelms and overtakes the earspace. A downpour!’ Now that’s a beautiful to describe the track Under Trees It Rains Twice by Coen Oscar Polack & Herman Wilken. Read more in the review of their album The Language of Mountains Is Rain on the British website Sonomu. ‘Things are buzzing again around the Narrominded label’, writes the magazine Gonzo (circus) in their review of the new records by Living Ornaments and Psychon. They say that Living Ornaments make music with a clearer goal than Psychon, which is more fragmented, but nonetheless of high quality.
The Austrian e-zine Cracked reviews the album Slow Country For Old Men by Psychon: ‘Someday music archaeologists probably will look back and pronounce this the most important experimental album of the decade.’ Read the whole review here. The new Dutch blog Westerlingen is very enthusiastic about Katadreuffe’s Quel Gargantua! EP. ‘A band we should keep an eye on.’ Read that one here.
Byron Coley and Thurston Moore call the Split LP by Mats Gustafsson and Cor Fuhler ‘amazing shit’. Read more here. The German student magazine Unikat reviews Katadreuffe’s Quel Gargantua! EP and thinks they are a band with a ‘trademark sound’. Read the whole review here. Dutch blog Eclectro says that Korrels by Living Ornaments ‘offers a refreshing look on idm, electro, ambient and techno’. More here. And finally, the free mp3 music culture magazine Phlow on Slow Country For Old Men by Psychon: ‘fluidity is the key-word’. Read that one here. The Psychon album was also added to the 3voor12 Luisterpaal.
Perhaps it are the pictures of their athletic bodies on the cover of Slow Country For Old Men that got Psychon a review in the urban sports e-zine eRythropoetizinum, or maybe it’s because the guys of Psychon used a lot of hip hop beats on their new album. Anyways, eRythropoetizinum calls Psychon ‘great for some workout sessions’. Read the whole review here.
The radio program Beautiful Extremes, online radio by Studio 80, played the tracks Nanamissouri by Psychon from the album Slow Country For Old Men and Dagjesmensen by Living Ornaments from the album Korrels. Listen to the fragment from the broadcast on September 29 in the player below.
Vital Weekly, the oldest online source for music reviews, reviews the new albums by Psychon and Living Ornaments. They call Slow Country For Old Men by Psychon music with ’hip hop like rhythms and lots of wacky vocal samples, guitars, ambient doodling, psychedelica that strangely enough sounds all pretty coherent.’ And Korrels by Living Ornaments ‘armchair dance music’. Read the whole review here.
The Dutch website Subjectivisten / Caleidoscoop reviews the new releases by Psychon and Living Ornaments. On Korrels by Living Ornaments: ‘Everything they let you hear on this record is of very high quality and made with passion, ear and eye for details and a sparkling elegance.’ On Slow Country For Old Men by Psychon: ‘A work that leaves a lasting impression, is mesmerizing and special and shows the strength of the Narrominded label and the people behind it.’ Read the whole reviews here. Thanks for the very kind words!
Narrominded presents new albums by trusted Narrominded artists: Living Ornaments and Psychon. Both groups have been active on the label for almost a decade and with their new work they show they still have an absolute fresh and a very own vision on music. About Living Ornaments: With their previous record Vlokken (2006) Living Ornaments created a classic in Dutch electronica. Korrels is the second album by the duo and has, besides the trusted elements like guitars, piano and broken samples, an important role for synthesizers. About Psychon: It was 2004, when the album Apocalypse Has Been Dubbed The Weekend Pill was released, when we last heard from Psychon. Now, five years later, Slow Country For Old Men is completed and it has been worth the wait. Nothing has changed in the eccentric complexity of the music of Psychon and the eclectic mould of all sorts of musical styles is also back. Both records are now available on cd as well as free mp3 download.
Great news for audio purists! All sold out Narrominded releases and releases only available as free mp3 are now also available as FLAC. The releases are all albums by Psychon Troopers, Klonten and Kattenkwaad by Living Ornaments, As When Lighted and Field Trip by Petrified Host, Psychic Investigations by Coen Oscar Polack, Hoofddorp by Larz, Aurakramp by Quarles van Ufford, How To Explain De Flipstand To A Friend by Pfaff, Fire Friend/Shadows From The Past by Makazoruki and I Wanna Come As A Tourist by Gone Bald. We have also updated all the mp3’s on our website. They all are now 320 kbps, include perfect tags and even the artwork is added to the files. Happy downloading!
