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Guppy

by Benjamin Shaw

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Jeremy / HI54LOFI
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Jeremy / HI54LOFI At first I was like “400 Yen?! That's a bit steep Ben”… but then I saw the conversion to £'s.
Jools
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Jools This beauty came today. It's ethereal and transports you easily between the worlds. Wow! What a gorgeous piece of work. Favorite track: Good Arrows.
alwbsok
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alwbsok Bleak and beautiful, like a snowy landscape. The last song in particular, at the bottom of the pit of despair, is very cleverly constructed, neatly demonstrating how seductive certain ideas are when we are at our lowest. If this album is too dark for you, I recommend the more poppy (and still excellent) Megadead. Favorite track: Not Today, Satan.
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Guppyは、Benjamin Shawによる5作目のアルバムです。カナダで生まれ、現在はロンドン在住のベンジャミンですが、彼の音楽には、青少年期を過ごしたイギリス北部(ブラックプール)のルーツが色濃く表れています。
 
これまで、”シンガーソングライター嫌いのシンガーソングライター”と言われてきましたが、今回のGuppyは、インストルメンタル色が強い作品となっています。

フィードバックノイズの中で囁かれるメッセージ(I don’t know what I should do with all this great potential, I’ll probably piss it up the wall and claim artistic intention)で始まり、そこからは、歌詞に代わり、何層にもなったドローン、フィールドレコーディング音、そして時たま現れるメロディーへと繋がっていきます。
 
レコーディング、ミキシング、マスタリングと、全ての過程をベンジャミン独自で行ったこの作品は、”miserablist”(悲観者)ベンジャミンの、孤独感が溢れつつも美しい作品です。


Guppy is the fifth album by Canadian born, Blackpool raised, and London beaten Benjamin Shaw.

Previously tagged as the singer/songwriter who hates singer/songwriters (expressed sharply on ‘There’s Always Hope, There’s Always Cabernet’ and ‘Goodbye, Cagoule World’ released on London label Audio Antihero), Guppy follows a different path, much more in the vein of his two largely instrumental albums ‘Rumfucker’ and ‘Summer in the Box Room’.

Opening through a fog of feedback with the line “I don’t know what I should do with all this great potential, I’ll probably piss it up the wall and claim artistic intention”, Guppy then eschews the whole singing thing for waves of many-coloured drone, field recorded texture, and sun-struggling-to-break-through-heavy-cloud burnished flakes of melody, which only properly uncover themselves through close listening.

Self-recorded, self-mixed and self-mastered, it is very much a solo project from this bedroom miserablist Vangelis, but one with a panoramic scope and, occasionally, some useful life advice.

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released July 13, 2015

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