Last summer Bibio made his debut on Warp records with Ambivalence Avenue. Glitch Hop with folk thrown in, or is it the other way round? Kind of like he's take abit from Warp residents Flying Lotus and Grizzly Bear and put it in the mixer. Although not entirely because the album is very varied. 'Fire Ant' is very glitchy and choppy with a hip hop beat where as Lover's Carvings is straight up folky. And then 'Jealous of Roses' sounds abit like a 70's funk disco. A very original, almost organic album that entertains too.
Bibio - Fire Ants
This July saw the release of Cerulean by Baths. Parallels can be made with this and Bibio with the glitch hop feel and Flying Lotus connotations. However Baths ditch the folk and replace it with the much raved about Chillwave, but more from the Toro Y Moi spectrum. 'It's not Chillwave though, Chillwaves been rinsed, its gay blah blah' I hear you say. Ok it's not Chillwave. It is however dripping with beauty, the shimmering melodies of 'Animals' dance around your ears whilst you can hear the kids play in a distant Eutopia. But the glitchy snares mean that you can never be fully immersed in the dream. It hovers on the horizon but you can never quite get there, always one step behind. This album makes me feel a kind of scared that I can't get enough of, hope it does the same for you.
Baths - Animals
Baths - Hall
