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Haiku Salut
- Record Label: How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
- Release Date: Jul 31, 2015
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Jul 30, 2015An album-long search for new ways to express old thoughts, and far from any prescribed formula of tempos and buggery that would entail techno or drum n’ bass or other electronic information media.
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Aug 6, 2015Ultimately though, it is about mixing disparate influences and seeing how they blend together. Happily for all of us, this approach works brilliantly.
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Aug 5, 2015Where once the band may have occasionally caught your ear, these songs command attention throughout.
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Aug 3, 2015There may be no words, but their music speaks volumes--and is consistently rewarding and charming.
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Aug 3, 2015At times it’s reminiscent of Zach Condon’s band Beirut, but Haiku Salut never stay still for too long, nuzzling up to folk one minute and slow drum’n’bass the next.
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Jul 30, 2015This is an insinuating record, a sunshine-and-haywains counterpart to the sinister English ruralism of the likes of Hacker Farm, but one that nags at you once its charms are clear.
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UncutJul 30, 2015The Derbyshire trio bring a pleasing experimentalism to their second LP. [Aug 2015, p.75]
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MojoJul 30, 2015This is an album that seduces as readily as it challenges. [Sep 2015, p.88]
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Jul 30, 2015Gemma and Sophie Bakerwood and Louise Croft exploring electronica, with deep synth tones, crunching glitch and, on ‘Divided By Surfaces And Silence’ and ‘Skip To The End’, flickers of drum ‘n’ bass. Wordless, sighing vocals grace the semi-acoustic techno of ‘Hearts Not Parts’, the trio’s voices rushing through the gaps in the instrumental wash.
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Nov 4, 2015If this all sounds a bit linear, as though Etch and Etch Deep moves like a standard plot, well, that’s because it does. There’s no film to accompany it, but that doesn’t mean Haiku Salut’s second album doesn’t make for a fantastic score, providing a subtle emotional guide as it moves from point A to point B and each stop along the way.
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