Review: At 14 tracks large trance master Chicane's eighth studio album has arrived in the shape of Everything We Had To Leave Behind. Maintaining an uplifting & melancholic approach to his production, Chicane's classic trance chords are as always undeniable throughout this latest work while still touching on that late-90s-to-mid-2000s pioneering sound. The LP brings with it the Ibiza sunset croons of vocalist Joseph Aquilina (Goldfish) who's voice more often than not challenges the timbres of one Chris Martin. Exploring various drum patterns across numbers like the breakbeat "Make You Stay" or the skipping UK funky of "Sailing", get your housier, pop and balearic trance from "One Foot In The Past, One Foot In The Future" and "Hello, Goodbye". For more classically inclined fans, those trusted bouncy chords, breaths and beats can be found all the more in "Juno", "Don't Look Down", the album's beatless title-track, and exclusive Chicane cover version of Bon Iver's "8 (Circle)".
Review: Given the impressive number of labels he's released on over the last decade (Safer At Night, Throne of Blood, Let's Play House and OFF Recordings amongst them), we were rather surprised to find that this is Curses' first outing on Bordello a Parigi. There are two original cuts to choose from: "Pedal To The Metal & Don't Look Bad", a wonky Italo-disco jam full of fuzzy rock guitar riffs and spacey eight-bit synthesizer melodies, and the EBM-influenced throb of industrial strength workout "Knife In Teeth". Both cuts are given the remix treatment, with Tarr providing a more muscular, peak-time Italo revision of "Pedal To The Metal & Don't Look Back" before Birds of Paradise re-imagine "Knife In Teeth" as a drowsy and unusual chunk of industrial/IDM fusion.
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