Locd17r - Perfect Blue - Sunshine EP (limited 100 cdr)

Bio:

Perfect Blue started off in the Summer of 2001 as a bedroom project in Manchester. The name came about after watching a Japanese manga film of the same name. The music was initially dance orientated and after a few cds were sent out, Perfect Blue were being aired on the BBC. Fast forward to 2006, a chance meeting between two old friends saw new ideas brought to the fore and since then, the music has somewhat evolved into a trip all of its own. Perfect Blue are currently exploring unchartered territories and right now anything's possible.

TRACKLISTING :
1. Sunshine
2. Forever
3. In Fear of Fear
4. The Destruction of Time

www.myspace.com/therealperfectblue

Review:

Related to those psychedelic explorers at Northern Star records, Perfect Blue tread an elegantly drawn line between quivering dreampop and floating-on-the-ceiling ambient. The four tracks here blend into one another, a miasma of sound that stretches and spirals, taking its time, building into total immersion trip music. The subtle shifting and shading of musical mood is suggestive of and complementary to a spot of journeying into the mind’s eye, whiting out in a thousand yard stare space.

Track one, 'Sunshine' and the thump of blood pumping in your ears pulses a beat across a delicate, trickling almost-melody, like a gentle come-down cousin to My Bloody Valentine’s ‘All I Need’. Then the heartbeat drifts away to leave an eerie, soothing soundscape of hovering, humming bliss which waxes and warps its way across the grooves (or whatever CDs have), allowing you to meander and drift, lapped by sound. The E.P.’s fourth track, ‘The Destruction of Time’ (there’s nothing like tackling the big issues eh?) brings things to a sinister, ticking end. A bell tolls in a ‘seeing your own funeral’ way, a chill wind blows and suggestions of Loop’s ‘Shot Like A Diamond’ swaddled in cotton-wool and Valium creep in unbidden. A twenty-four minute technicolour dream. --- Kitten Painting

Perfect Blue這張Sunshine EP是Lona Records之3”CD單曲系列旗下的首隊英國樂隊出品，廠牌主人Alok對此出品顯得額外雀躍，因為他是英國Shoegazer樂團The Telescopes的忠實擁躉，而Perfect Blue則是The Telescopes的圈中好友。

Perfect Blue看似那些悶蛋清新結他樂隊名字，實情他們是迷幻樂團The Electric Mainline成員Scott Causer和Rob Allen，以及Nisei23的Maria Navarra所組成，取名自一齣日本動畫名稱。而Perfect Blue是他們朝向實驗性音樂探討的Project。

在Sunshine EP內，他們打造出是一種深邃而氛圍化的結他Ambient音樂(據知他們並沒有採用電子合成器作演奏)，讓聽者馳騁在其Soundscape之間，好比曾幾何時的Seefeel、後來的Windy & Carl甚至My Bloody Valentine在Loveless時期的靜謐曲目。

他們所營造的奇麗夢幻Ambient意境，在主題曲Sunshine裡已表露無遺，然而那低迥的人聲Chanting，以及帶點工業味的冷冷闇黑氛圍，卻為樂曲凝聚出一股神秘異色。光明與黑暗彷彿共存在同一空間內。

In Fear Of Fear那波瀾壯闊而帶點後浪漫式悲壯的氛圍，就懾人心魄得簡直好比德國電子大師Klaus Schulze的Synthesizer Music般。而The Destruction Of Time亦猶如早年柏林的漫天無際、神秘莫測太空電子音樂呢。 ---袁智聰 MCB-online