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| Artist: Squarepusher
Label: Pias UK
Category: Music
List Price: £13.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 8235
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.1 x 5 x 0.2
MPN: 161
UPC: 801061016128
EAN: 0801061016128
ASIN: B001FY2LCK
Release Date: October 27, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Star Time 2 | | • | The Coathanger | | • | Open Society | | • | A Real Woman | | • | Delta-V | | • | Aqueduct | | • | Potential Govaner | | • | Planet Gear | | • | Tensor In Green | | • | The Glass Road | | • | Fluxgate | | • | Duotone Moonbeam | | • | Quadrature | | • | Yes Sequitur |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Loopy stuff December 9, 2008
Fingerbar Fiddleston (Underground)
This sounds not dissimilar to a Weather Report cover band staffed by members of Daft Punk, Level 42 and Chrome. And I mean that in a good way. If you are a fan of music - you will like this.
 Going Mainstream? November 25, 2008
Michael Bird (Reading, Berkshire United Kingdom)
It's a shame that artists can lose their flair - maybe not forever. This is a major disappointment - can't tell the difference between tunes on this one. Hello Everything was a let-down. Ultravisitor a lot better. I'm not an album person. Rate each tune individually in iTunes and you'll see they get better backward chronologically. Big Loada & Hard Normal Daddy are the best. I'm waiting for the next best new...
NOT just "another squarepusher album"... November 10, 2008
Mr. Dm Raine
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It would be (and is) a huge mistake to state that this album is "just another squarepusher album". I can't really imagine a less appropriate description. It would be infinitely more appropriate to describe it as a timely evolution and consolidation of his own sound. I can't think of an album which TJ has released which actually resonates the Squarepusher sound more prolifically. This, I think, is a very good thing.
I have been a fan of SP since Feed Me Weird Things and I can see the transmutation which has occurred. This guy IS talented and IS destined for bigger (but not necessarily better) things. It's weird that the first guy to review this album would mention the mercury music awards and such things... I don't know why that this is in any way important. The fact is that this album takes all previous SP albums and builds upon them with aplomb and does not need corporate endorsement at all.
If you own any (or all) SP albums then this is an album you should buy as a matter of course, regardless of any ill informed cynics. It's a genuine addition to his musical genesis and not an exercise in banality which has been suggested elsewhere.
Buy and be happy.
Another great album October 30, 2008
Elliot Davies (Liverpool, England)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Squarepusher is my favourite artist on Warp, and one of my favourite musicians ever. I would very much struggle to give an album of his less than five stars, mainly because I think that they all deserve them, and this one is no exception.
Following on from 2005s Hello Everything, Just A Souvenir finds Tom Jenkinson seemingly having a lot of fun in the studio. As a result this is, in my opinion, a very enjoyable album to listen to. Musically it has a lot in common too, mixing up the messed up drum'n'bass of his earlier material with more dance floor friendly beats, while throwing in liberal doses of other influences from jazz and funk to prog rock! It is also one of his most accessible works.
Surprisingly, I find this all knits together exceptionally well, despite what the previous reviewer seems to think. This is possibly due to it being some sort of concept album, even if the concept of it is based on an odd dream that Mr. Jenkinson had about seeing a live band. This concept also means that many of the tracks also feel like there is a band playing them rather than an individual. Far more so than previous albums, even though they all utilize many different layers of sound.
Just A Souvenir probably won't go down as being one of the best Squarepusher albums, but as it works very well as a coherent whole, and that a few of the tracks are among his best in my opinion, I would say that it's a very satisfying new release. Also due to it's accessibility and the range of different styles found across the fourteen tracks, I would say that this is a great introduction to the music of one of the best electronic artists around.
 Just another Squarepusher album September 21, 2008
Colin Mccartney (Manchester, Lancashire United Kingdom)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Yes he's a talented guy.
Yes it's all real instruments AND he plays them all himself. But therein lies a bit of a problem. The "solo project" problem - common to a lot of electronic artists. With nobody to temper Tom Jenkinson's great ideas it all sounds a bit disconnected (to me).
As Squarepusher LPs go this one is, on first play at least, one of the more accessible (see previous Amazon reviews vis-a-vis "increasing tendancy towards jazz-funk") - I would even go as far as to say it would be refreshing to see this get a nomination for the 2009 Mercury Music Prize. But on subsequent plays it leaves me a bit cold. The lyric "I am a member of society" can only raise a smile so many times (although it DID raise a smile - nice one TJ).
Not up there with his best (which for me would either be Go Plastic or Do You Know Squarepusher).
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