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AIRPLAY:
Played on John Peel, Radio 3's Late Junction, Beat 106's The Beatscene
& Radio Magnetic's Fallout.
REVIEWS
IN FULL:
Norman
Records
"Calamateur
released a single last year I think it was which you seemed to like....
we did. Now just in this fat morn we have a 3" CD single ltd to 200
copies in a porn style brown paper bag (more like an envelope actually)
with little inserts and that. A lovely thing to look at indeed. Tis called
the Autocity EP you know. It's atmospheric floaty type music with samples
from news reports (by the sounds of things) of war and carnage. Very pretty
beautiful sounding stuff and well worth a punt me thinks.”
Rough
Trade
"Beautifully packaged 3" CD limited to just 200 copies from
Calamateur who come from the suburbs of Glasgow. The four tracks are total
bleak soundscapes with spoken word samples on top. This could reasily
sit on Constellation or on a Clientele single."
Is
This Music?
"The second concept record about driving this month but this one
is clearly not in favour of our mechanical friends. 4 pulsating tracks
on a 3” CD which somehow mimic engine noise, while samples of crash death
statistics interplay in a cursory warning on the evils of the automobile.
Snippets of radio chat on traffic build up through the CD – ‘Bad Day’
features a description of the state of a collided car until the inevitable
‘Farstar’ is reached – actually so spooky that it seems it would soundtrack
a space shuttle crash until an American statistician (of course) kicks
in equating highway death tolls to those in ‘nam.”
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