Furrowed betwixt night smear and the gear-stick, hunched in a cold, incommodious vehicle. Greasy tyres hurtling over the rush hour: red lights and car-horns streaking rage through the rain.
This isn’t working. This is Rebelski. This isn’t a record to dig on the highway.
For there are no turbo-firing guitars here; no poodle-riffed anthems; no arch-histrionics: there’s just a balmy, quiet ripple of fluttering electronica and ambient, neo-classical gas from Martin Rebelski – sometime keyboard wizard with Doves and the latest signing to Twisted Nerve.
From burbling glissandi and sci-fi flourishes on the uplifting, downtime prog jaunt ‘Remote Control’, to a logarithmic organ shamble and grazing croon on the single ‘Play The School Piano’, this album is a placid voyage through cosmic pop and digital liaisons.
And although it drifts dangerously close to MOR at times, (hello Gerry Rafferty and pseudo-Blue Nile references), Rebelski’s melodic, moderate odyssey lingers like silver on an indigo sky.
The standout and concluding track – a three-minute celestial epic called ‘Magic Calculator’ – sees a child-like, poignant piano motif blaze a trail of colossal vibrato and swelling dynamics and luminous spatters and flushing crescendos. It glides like a woozy, reluctant spaceship: bound for the stars but crying for home.
And though it’s not quite out of this world, it serves as an understated lesson: that what seems insipid in the clamour of drive time becomes more beguiling by the light of the moon.
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Furrowed betwixt night smear and the gear-stick, hunched in a cold, incommodious vehicle. Greasy tyres hurtling over the rush hour: red lights and car-horns streaking rage through the rain.
