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| Mothboy - Bunny
(Ad Noiseam)
Tracklist
01. Please Be Seated
02. Move (Too Close) (with Equivalant)
03. You / Me (with Suzi C)
04. Cala Nova
05. Motion Control (with Sezrah Sylvan)
06. Won’t
07. Johnny Nemo (with Akira The Don)
08. I Can’t Wait Until Tomorrow Night (with Nonnon)
09. My Love
10. Version 2 (Pontcanna Stone) (with Martin Carr)
11. Glow
12. Cala Martina
13. Subway Song (Archipelago) (with Robert Conroy)
14. Drive Home Safely
Release Date
17th April 2010
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Mothboy - Bunny
Press Release
Third and final studio album by Mothboy. With "Bunny", one of the most varied and innovative act on Ad Noiseam brings a chapter to an end with an album that condensates everything Mothboy has been known for: a very rich sound, heavy basses, infectious rhythms, well chosen and even better used vocals, and of course a moving, lush jazz touch. Cute, sweet, but dangerous and bloody, here's a an album well illustrated by its cover artwork, and which both crowns and expands the essential and so personal Mothboy sound.
It was a unidentified audio object, landing on the demo pile in early 2004 that started the collaboration between Mothboy and Ad Noiseam. The then young project by London-based Simon Smerdon, recommended to the label by Larvae (who had that time were still touring for their "Fashion Victim" album) was already something hard to categorize. Featuring tracks co-written with bass heavyweights Scorn, Larvae and Horchata, but also featuring the rapped musings of (the also then unknown) Akira The Don, this demo of "The Fears" album was something intriguing by its depth, its diversity and, most of all, the care and talent brought in its inception. Six years later and two pressings later, Mothboy's warm first claustrophobic night ride stands as one of the classic albums which helped build Ad Noiseam.
Then came the playful trip around the globe of the bright red "Deviance", which increased the number of guests, unleashed the techno elements (and the "Selfish Plan" dancefloor packer) and underlined Mothboy's contemporaneity, built as a meeting point for Smerdon's important music culture and the then nascent grime sound. Preceded and followed by two 12" singles, the breaky "Beg / Movement" (and its Starkey single) and the Detroit-minded "Exonian" (with a Monrella one), "Deviance" was Mothboy at his most playful.
A new decade has come, Simon Smerdon has decided to take his talent to other musical waters, and, at least for the moment, retire the ...Read the whole post...
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