Review: How can we not think of James Ivory's classic Room With A View everytime this phrase is mentioned...or is it really that we're all just stuck in a room? In Rone's case it's as if, at large, this album has what it takes to get us out of bed and chase down the days in a burst of colour. Take the inspired motifs in tracks like "Human", "Babel" and "Sophora Japonica" to the Burial-esque, deeper and dubby material like "Reverie" and "Liminal". There's riffs, twinkling arpeggios and rolling progressions not far from Oni Ayhun in "Nouveau Monde '' alongside the outlandish claviers and drone of "Le Crapaud Dore". All with what's happening outside right now, a room with a view is a good place to be.
Review: French electronic music maverick Erwan Castex aka Rone drops an LP for his native InFine imprint! This, as one would expect from Castex by now, is an excursion into the deepest depth of the synthesizer. There are both moments of total abstraction, such as on "(OO)" and "Ouija", and of sheer delicacy on the wonderful "Acid Reflux" or "Memory". The most impressive aspect of the album is Rone's technical ability, a freedom to express even the wildest of ideas into a concrete groove and sonic structure. Recommended.
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