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CMU Approved
Approved: Colder
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 25 April 2016
Colder, aka producer Marc Nguyen Tan, ties together post-punk, krautrock and dub with French lounge cool. Which, now I’ve written it down, sounds like all kinds of a disaster. Thankfully, he pulls it off with far more skill in practice than I’ve managed in describing it. Colder’s fourth album, with appears in two halves – ‘Goodbye’ and ‘The Rain’ – is due for release on 24 Jun through Bataille.
On ‘Goodbye’, he seems to soundtrack an experimental 70s road movie that doesn’t exist. But if it did, I would watch the shit out of it. ‘The Rain’ is perhaps a darker sequel, where everything quickly goes wrong and repeated attempts by our protagonists to escape their fate only pushes them further away from reality. You will enthusiastically tell people how great this film is but never have any desire to actually watch it again. The soundtrack is a keeper though.
Check out ‘Inside’ from ‘Goodbye’ here:
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