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Brian English — Beyond Words Buy it at Amazon

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“Beyond Words” lives up to its title marrying Eno-esque ambient and Orb-like rhythms with nary a “true” vocal to be heard. Fluorescent Grey was helped out by Brian English on their debut “Lying On the Floor” on Isolate/Record Label Records. That experience led to this majestic electronic masterpiece “Beyond Words”. Split with terrific breakbeats from found sound percussion and blended audio textures of synthesizer and spliced samples, “Beyond Words” is simply beyond words, description, and peers. Beat-wise it’s danceable and embodies what true IDM and hip lounge kids are craving these days. Laptop electronica folks will also find this album compelling as the production is just completely off the hook. And that should be well noted considering much of this album is the result of field recordings—samples of washing machines and sounds captured from his various travels around the globe are speckled throughout this dynamic and crafty ambient IDM soundscape work of art. Truly an album I want to share with the world (but I pinky promise not to do anything illegal like rip it or copy it!). If you’re an IDM fan, please buy this album now, I know it sounds ridiculous for me to plead, but the world needs to encourage artists this unbelievably talented to keep making records.

- J-Sin

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