ARTICLES
Listening Post: E. Honig
Label Profile: Ad Noiseam

ALBUMS
Leo Abrahams
Ammoncontact
Anka
Lloyd Barrett
Beach House
Bibio
Christina Carter
Davis & Jerman
Ecstatic Sunshine
Ensemble
Fluorescent Grey
Freiband
[guÿôm]
Chris Herbert
Home Video
Larvae
Lullabye Arkestra
Mathieu / Schaefer
MONO & w. end girlfriend
My Robot Friend
Nicolay
Pieter Nooten
Nuccini
Obfusc
Objekt4
Over the Atlantic
Para One
Proem
Red Sparowes
The Remote
Root 70
Florencia Ruiz
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Alan Sparhawk
Andy Stott
Thumbtack Smoothie
Tortoise
Triosk
Vlor

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Ad Noiseam 2001-2006
Another Generic Sampler
Bip-Hop Generation 8
Diary of a Sweet Day
Idea Hoard Uncut
Innature
Morrow Choral Orchestra
Noise Factory Vol. 3
Squadron 2
Warp Works

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Alias & Tarsier
Audion
Caroline
Home Video
Iz & Diz
Sami Koivikko
Mai
Mathhead
Monomachine
Narcotic Syntax
Quinoline Yellow
Sigur Rós
Samartzis & English
Samartzis & Inada
Andy Vaz
Andy Vaz Remixes
Waterprotection

Bibio: Hand Cranked
Mush

Sounding like a slightly more countrified than psychedelicized Boards of Canada, Bibio's Hand Cranked credibly extends Stephen Wilkinson's music beyond his fi debut (how fitting his choice of moniker derives from a fly fishing lure). While Warp's revered duo conjures mystical settings that subsist in some imaginary ethereal realm, Wilkinson solidifies his connection to the natural richness of his Wolverhampton, England homestead with these fourteen idyllic settings.

As did Boards of Canada on its last full-length, The Campfire Headphase , Bibio explores even more thoroughly the sonic range of the guitar on the new outing, with the six-string picked but also subjected to backwards phasing and aquatic warbling (an effect that turns sitar-like in “Zoopraxiphone”). Sunkissed vignettes like “Marram” and the ‘60s-styled vocal cut “Aberriw” intimate that Bibio's forecast is anything but gloomy. The music's folk roots move to the forefront in “Woodington” and “Maroon Lagoon” while the combination of melodica, ‘60s bass, and cheery pop melodies in “DYFI” pulls Bibio into F.S. Blumm's sonic orbit. “Above the Rooftops” sounds like the local prodigy caught playing the piano at the local country pub, the song's light-hearted vibe representative of Hand Cranked in general.

October 2006