Popular Mechanics

by Piano Magic

Popular Mechanics cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1997
  • Label: i Records
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 51:07
  • Community rating: 3.08/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Piano Magic delivers an incredibly eclectic, avant-garde fusion of glitch pop and early hauntology. The album utilizes highly mechanical, repetitive sound collages and lo-fi electronics to build an ominous, futuristic, yet strangely pastoral ambient pop atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: Leftfield, repetitive, lo-fi, avant-garde, experimental, dreamy, minimal, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Metal Coffee (1:30)
  2. Wintersport / Cross-Country (8:34)
  3. Everything Works Beautifully (2:27)
  4. Untitled (0:54)
  5. Amongst Russian Lathes & Metal Curls (4:09)
  6. Birth of an Object (2:16)
  7. Revolving Moth Cage (4:07)
  8. To Be Swished/Dream of the UPS Driver (9:02)
  9. Freckled Robot (2:53)
  10. Soft Magnets (5:01)
  11. Wrong French (5:36)
  12. You've Lost Your Footing In This World (4:33)

Credits

  • David Griffiths - sounds [sound]
  • Dick Rance - sounds [sound]
  • Martin Cooper - sounds [sound], written-by
  • Paul Tornbohm - sounds [sound]
  • Glen Johnson - sounds [sound], words by, written-by
  • Hazel Burfitt - voice
  • Raechel Leigh - voice

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