Icarus - Sylt

Good news: post-jungle experimentalists Icarus (the buoyant duo of Ollie Bown and Sam Britton) will release a new album this autumn. Named after a small island off the coast of the Denmark, Sylt will be their first Icarus album since the iconic I Tweet the Birdy Electric (Leaf, 2004), a playful masterpiece of hyperrhythmic avant beat freetronica. In 2005, they released Carnivalesque on their fantasy non-label Not Applicable, a self-described “adaptation of a 30 minute live sketch into a studio-buffed precision product”. Another instant hit with early jungle aficionados, tired of recycled dance floor cliches, but also with hardcore academic music contemporaries and improvised music fans.

Listen to some samples and read the press releases of I Tweet the Birdy Electric and Carnivalesque on the Icarus Web site. Read an excellent review of I Tweet the Birdy Electric by Colin Buttimer (BBC).

Sylt will be released on Rump Recordings.

Tracklist:

1. Keet 6′26”
2. Rugkiks 3′34”
3. First Inf(E)Raence 18′38”
4. Selfautoparent 2′48”
5. Second Inf(E)Raence 17′07”
6. Jyske 5′19”
7. Volks! 6′13”

File under: Edgard Varèse, Evan Parker, Squarepusher

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