Faux Pas, Waterfalls EP
With more records more readily available, and faster, even art pop music must react. As local production auteur Tim Shiel rightly knows, the future is free and high-definition; sounds are fast and supernaturalism is required. Like a sun-kissed David Holmes or space-shocked Eric Copeland, Shiel as Faux Pas is making some highly adaptive, attention-added electronica - tunes overflowing with sounds and finished as if in pure data mint. Heir to the Avalanches' upside-psyche Australian mix approach, his tunes are impressive elastic strands of plaited sense associations; extract of flashy disco, pastoral swoon and computer exploration.
New four track, Waterfalls EP, will get favourably meta-tagged as a Balearic dance album - listen harder though, and there's far more here than that buzz-term's come to shorthand. For a moment - before the pitched electronic percussion, pet-cute synth lines, anodized vocal and clipped Country strums begin - opener 'Chasing Waterfalls' sounds dead-set like Stereolab circa Mars Audiac Quintet. Then there's the breathtaking, melancholy break in 'Rose's Lament' from deep-funk, Presets-touched territory to fading and dreamy finger-picked guitar. Finally, the improvised 'Live from Doom' sounds like a Sega-version Headhunters. Mad shit and free.
By Mark Gomes
Genre: Electronic
Release: EP
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