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| Detritus - The Very Idea
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Tracklist
01. Bind
02. The Very Idea
03. Steep
04. Egress
05. Blinding
06. Radial
07. After
08. More than Half
09. Bane
10. Secession
11. After (Remix by Poordream)
Release Date
14th April 2014
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Detritus - The Very Idea
Press Release
A refinement, a sharpening and a surpassing: Detritus takes his art in yet another direction with "The Very Idea". The sixth studio album by this musician is the one in which he strips down his music to its cores and present it in both its rawest and most touching aspects. Heavy and crisp, but also gentle and humane, Detritus's new work is something which expands the scope of his talent and confirms yet again Detritus's position as an always-innovating, influential artist who constantly takes his tools forward.
Even though all of Detritus's releases carry his recognizable touch and atmosphere, this musician never delivers the same album twice: after his most electronic and club-oriented "Endogenous" came his calmest "Origin", itself followed by the hard and gritty "Fractured". This time around, "The Very Idea" is Detritus at his most emotional, laid-back and touching.
Pinpointing this "very idea" might be difficult, the essence of this album being found in the cracks between its building elements. It is somewhere at the conjunction of the long, once again deeply touching piano melodies and of the thicker, more imposing beats that the new face of Detritus emerges. This musician seems to have condensed here the more frontal and electronic part of his art, allowing its soulfulness to unfold its true potential. A track such as "Egress" is a perfect example of this evolution, including all the electronica, industrial and drum'n'bass elements of Detritus's past but also stepping beyond them towards a genuinely humane whole. It would be too easy to write that "The Very Idea" is the sum of Detritus's raw, "Fractured"-era beats and guitars and hi...Read the whole post...
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