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Album Review
by SashaS
30-4-2004
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| Tim Wright: 'Thirst' for extreme sonics |
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Tim Wright: 'Thirst'
(novamute)
Tim Wright’s thirst for visionary sounds
For all the complainers about music quality pushed upon us by the major players - there is a whole world of splendour out there, waiting to be uncovered to cosset you to that special place you go to when running away from ‘Metal for Tescos’, ‘Stepford Pop’ or shopping mall dancetronica. For every predictable riff by The Strokes, there is a wildness of Young Heart Attack; for all the REM ‘greatness’, there is the long-delayed Joy Zipper’s ‘American Whip’… For all the mediocrity of Coldplay there is frenzied funk-a-mania of !!! [read Chk Chk Chk, we are instructed to inform you] and their June-due CD ‘Louden Up Now’, or Wiley for some street-beatz…
And then, there’s Tim Wright. ‘Thirst’ is an 11-track offering by an artist who’s travelled the creative road under the number of pseudonyms. Having grown up on a diet of extreme-minded music of Cap. Beefheart, Psychic TV, Pharaoh Saunders, Throbbing Gristle, The Fall, Wright’s progression through music exploration included a number of bands and studying Music Technology at York University. In 1992 he cut his first tracks…
His interest in electronic music hasn‘t prevent him exploring organic tunes with his band Sand, as well as toying with house and techno under the Moondog guise. ‘Thirst’ is an electronic record that combines techno sounds with urban vibe and funky feel to create a rather fresh and unique sounding album.
It is a mainly instrumental record - although there are a couple of vocal contributors, Juice Aleem and Toastie Tailor - that serves move-inducers or mind-relaxers. Entering with haunting ‘Kick The Door In’ it provides moments of electro-jazz and a ragga-influenced track [‘The Ride’], mutated funk of ‘Flatliner’, bass-driven heavy-blissful-ness that is ‘Dust’, the avant-cyberism-cum-el.funk of magnum-sized ‘Killergod’… There is also ambience of ‘Flatliner (Echo)’…
Hidden track ‘There But For The Grace’ ends the album named after Mr Wright’s abstaining from alcohol during the final stages of studio work but there could have been some other… forces at work here. ‘Thirst’ should establish Tim Wright as a veritable master of eletronique.
8/10
SashaS
30-4-2004
Tim Wright’s album ‘Thirst’ is released 26 April 2004 by novamute
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