Jimmy Edgar Color Strip Review

Album. Released 12 April 2006.  

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At heart this is a soul album, synthetic but rooted in human experience.

Matt Harvey 2006-04-27

What made Detroit techno stand out from the acid house vibe of the late 80s was its bleakness; it was beautiful but melancholy -perfect music to listen to on the headphones as you wandered through the post industrial landscape. Jimmy Edgar, a young son of the Motor City, stays true to that vibe in his rather excellent new album.

Edgar seems happy to mine the past, not with slavish nostalgia, but with a desire to create emotional textures and atmospheres, using delightfully economic production throughout.

There's an old skool electro feel to "My Beats" and "Personal Information", conjuring up memories of those mid-80s StreetSound compilations. The opening track "Pret 'a' Porter" is a little wonder, skipping along with a nod to Akufen, but somehow never quite losing the compelling unease which runs throughout Color Strip.

At heart this is a soul album, synthetic but rooted in human experience. I recommend it to anyone who wants a little happy sadness in their summer.

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Review of Color Strip

Tracks

  1. 1 Pret-A-Porter
  2. 2 My Beats
  3. 3 I Wanna Be Your STD
  4. 4 LBLB Detroit
  5. 5 Personal Information
  6. 6 Telautraux
  7. 7 Hold It, Attach It, Connect It
  8. 8 Jefferson Interception
  9. 9 Of the Silent Variety
  10. 10 Semierotic
  11. 11 Color Strip (Warren)
  12. 12 [silence]
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  14. 14 [silence]
  15. 15 [silence]
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  89. 89 Heart Beat Sexual

Release Details

  • Label

    Warp Records

  • Date

    Feb 20 2006

  • Country

    United Kingdom

  • Format

    CD

  • Catalogue #

    WARPCD116

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