Figurine: Discard Ep
555 Recordings 555CD46 2002
http://www.figurinedatacenter.co.uk
So it's official. Electro Pop is cool
again. New Wave is ok too. If you still have your doubts, then Figurine will
give you a big hug and let you know that everything is going to be ok, and
that its perfectly acceptable to like electro tinged pop music. Discard
EP is the newest offering from this disjunctive UK trio who only meet
up occasionally to record and do the occasional gig. Figurine make smashingly
good pop tunes that when combined with synths, loops, and other effects are
simply amazing. Discard EP is a far rougher series of beats that earlier Figurine
releases, and whips and slides back and forth shaking off samples as it unravels.
The CD even features 52 "discards" from four DJs Isan, Sutekh, Rechenzentrum,
and Yabe Milk who have donated their samples to be used in the first four
tracks of the EP, which despite their isolated nature are each mini compositions
(some no more than 2 seconds in length) for one to enjoy. The four songs themselves
are drippy, cybernaut-love ditties, which smear words of desire, with clicking
and chirping samples that make one feel like shagging their i-book in frustrated,
electronic abandon.
-JS