The album was recorded in Los Angeles, New York and Canada, Jamie s fellow travelers on Compass include Beck, Feist, Gonzales, Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear and Pat Sansone of Wilco. Musically and lyrically this is very much a Jamie Lidell Production—reflecting not only his exhilarating, diverse tastes, but also a year of change, love, longing and arrival at a new place.
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Bleed, the first album by Paris-based cold-pop duo, aswefall, left an indelible mark when in appeared in 2005 on Kill the DJ, with enthusiastic reviews (Les Inrockuptibles, Libération, Nova, Magic, etc) and an advertising showcase (the track Between us was the Air France official theme-tune for four years).
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A rich tension has always existed between machine-made sounds and human emotions. One the one hand, there is equipment – exact, untiring, dispassionate, icy. On the other, there is the human heart – hot, messy, inconstant, yearning. This textural disjoint has made for decades of great pop music, from disco through house to Bjork and beyond.
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