 Testbild!
Aquatint
Release Date: 2009
Label: Friendly Noise
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The inspired artistic drive that keeps Testbild! creating unusual, intriguing, electronic art pop discs continues with Aquatint, probably their most ambitious to date. The water theme throughout the album artwork gets echoed with the opening track -- consisting of little more than the sound of rushing fluids -- which makes the easygoing gentility of "Lighthouse Glow" a fine contrast as the album's first song, as such. The album's 20 songs touch on everything from the quietest of keyboard pieces to sweetly sung confections that shows the group's Beach Boys love will never die to further collages of natural sounds and other elements, all within the overarching context of both the general water theme and a short film and story included with the album. In a nice touch, the concluding song, "My Brother the Submariner," is actually an outside songwriting contribution from a simpatico source, Matt Jones of the Hepburns. Ned Raggett, All Music Guide
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | | 1 | Sunset Through a Drinking Glass | Stepbrother Ernest, Mekka, Siber, Quadslums, Mist, Spunkvolt | 2:19 | | 2 | Lighthouse Glow | Mekka, Quadslums, Stepbrother Ernest, Mist, Spunkvolt, Siber | 2:57 | | 3 | Rippling Icicle | Mekka, Siber, Mist, Spunkvolt, Quadslums, Stepbrother Ernest | 2:24 | | 4 | Solid Food Invented by Tigers | Siber, Mist, Stepbrother Ernest, Quadslums, Spunkvolt, Mekka | 6:28 | | 5 | Drop | Stepbrother Ernest, Spunkvolt, Quadslums, Mekka, Mist, Siber | 2:12 | | 6 | Soup and Fog | Siber, Mist, Mekka, Quadslums, Stepbrother Ernest, Spunkvolt | 4:07 | | 7 | Drowning, Breathing | Quadslums, Stepbrother Ernest, Spunkvolt, Mist, Siber, Mekka | 3:10 | | 8 | Disintergration in Daylight | Stepbrother Ernest, Mekka, Quadslums, Siber, Mist, Spunkvolt | 1:06 | | 9 | All of the Fishes | Quadslums, Stepbrother Ernest, Spunkvolt, Siber, Mist, Mekka | 3:59 | | 10 | Aquatint | Stepbrother Ernest, Mekka, Quadslums, Mist, Siber, Spunkvolt | 3:32 | | 11 | Bathysphere | Spunkvolt, Mekka, Quadslums, Mist, Siber, Stepbrother Ernest | 6:54 | | 12 | Damp Meteorograph | Quadslums, Stepbrother Ernest, Mist, Mekka, Spunkvolt, Siber | 3:33 | | 13 | Monochrome Kaleidoscope | Siber, Mist, Mekka, Quadslums, Stepbrother Ernest, Spunkvolt | 3:29 | | 14 | Four Images of Salt | Spunkvolt, Siber, Stepbrother Ernest, Quadslums, Mekka, Mist | 1:37 | | 15 | Garnet Brand Land | Spunkvolt, Siber, Mist, Quadslums, Mekka, Stepbrother Ernest | 3:34 | | 16 | Beneath Transparent Felt | Stepbrother Ernest, Quadslums, Mekka, Spunkvolt, Siber, Mist | 1:24 | | 17 | Ship Directed | Mekka, Quadslums, Mist, Siber, Stepbrother Ernest, Spunkvolt | 3:14 | | 18 | Cell | Spunkvolt, Mist, Mekka, Siber, Stepbrother Ernest, Quadslums | 2:01 | | 19 | Submarine | Mekka, Mist, Siber, Quadslums, Spunkvolt, Stepbrother Ernest | 6:04 | | 20 | My Brother the Submariner | Jones | 7:01 | | 21 | [CD-Rom Track] | | |
Releases:
| Year | Type | Label | | 2009 | CD | Friendly Noise |
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