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01. Populous With Short Stories - Test Your Dreams
02. Populous With Short Stories - Only Hope
03. Populous With Short Stories - Days
04. Populous With Short Stories - Porcelain
05. Populous With Short Stories - Royal Gold
06. Populous With Short Stories - Steve
07. Populous With Short Stories - The Holy See
08. Populous With Short Stories - Younger
09. Populous With Short Stories - Man Overboard
10. Populous With Short Stories - Raimondo
11. Populous With Short Stories - Faithful
12. Populous With Short Stories - Bear Arms
13. Populous With Short Stories - Destinies
14. Populous With Short Stories - Breathes The Best
15. Populous With Short Stories - Shipwreck
16. Populous With Short Stories - Heaven Knows
ARTIST
TITLE
Drawn In Basic
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
MORR 083CD MORR 083CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/30/2008

This is the third album from Italian producer, Andrea Mangia aka Populous on Morr Music, with assistance from MC Short Stories aka Michael McGuire. Whereas Queue For Love (2005) curiously broadened the abstract-electronic foundations of his debut Quipo (2002) with the coordinates jazz, folk and especially soul (as an attitude as well as a sound), Drawn In Basic keeps your ears going in every direction. Andrea Mangia is captain and stowaway, songwriter and sound-bricoleur, with tracks that are tricky, polyphonic, and seconds later, four to the floor. Mangia is the type of person who fell in love with the feedbacking guitars of My Bloody Valentine equally as much he fell in love with the peculiar sounds of synthesizer pioneer, Raymond Scott. There are some peculiar synthesizers assembled on Drawn In Basic as well, not as a cool end in itself, but for their warm sounds. "Man Overboard" is a shoegazing melody, somewhere between indie-pop and disco. "Only Hope" is a charming hybrid of digital sounds and analog soul. "Days" piles up its walls of sound higher and higher. Finally, "Breathes The Best" remains 2007's sparkling event, released as a vinyl single on A Number Of Small Things, the little sister of Morr Music. This record is basic like the programming language of the same name, basic like the translation of analog pop music into a digital matrix, and basically beautiful.