Blue

Part Timer

title: Blue
artist: Par Timer
cat#: FLAU02
date:September.21h.2007

LISTEN
Unknown
Hide All You Like
Sudden Loss

As the second release from flau, and also the second album by Part Timer, Blue is unarguably a masterpiece of organic bedroom folk sounds for daily life. This luminous album is a collection of brand new tunes, a couple of remixes and some bits from the voluminous archives at McCaffrey HQ. His stunning click beats, and sublime warm melodies from acoustic guitar, beautifully exhibits the moteer's sound, with a polished touch of folk.
More elegant and pastoral than the melancholic sounds of his self-titled debut album, which was listed as one of favorite records of 2006 by The Pastels,Part Timer's Blue album features the fantastic Australian string quartet Fourplay,with its string instruments gorgeously instill weight and warmness into the already beautiful melodies. Also contributing to this album are the dreamy vocals of Nicola Hodgkinson (a.k.a. empress) and Andrew Johnson of The Remote Viewer.
Blue is where organic sounds and tranquil atmosphere drift together, gently blowing folkish breezes in between the summer leaves.Grab this now.

-tracklist-

01.Theme From Part Timer
02.Unknown
03.Four Timer (mix one)
04.Hide All You Like
05.Four Timer (mix two)
06.Hens Teeth
07.Somewhere That You Feel
08.Sudden Loss
09.Inside Ross' Memory
10.Not So Firm Resolve
11.Gentlemen Please
12.Click It
13.Samsa Cries In Thunder
14.Closing The Opera House

Reviews
Superb stuff. - textura

the sound of floating on a puffy white cloud through a crystal clear summer sky.
- aquarius

Hier sitzt alles perfekt...bei Part Timer macht das irgendwie Sinn, auch wenn es nur ein kleiner Aspekt dieser Platte ist. Einfach toll. - de:bug

"Blue" is just a gorgeous album, produced with a singular musical vision that's impossible not to adore, layered with a plethora of homespun musical signatures that transcend any kind of laptop music you could think of, and housed in the kind of typically lavish Japanese packaging that makes it utterly irresistible. Gorgeous music - brought to you with a massive recommendation. - boomkat (album of the week!)

beautifully meandering in between acoustic composition and delicate electronic tampering...gorgeous album. - lost in autsin

"Blue" presents individual meditations on mood - nostalgia, to be specific
- foxy digitalis

The album exudes a coziness and warmth from cover to cover which will ease the listener into a soothing state of minds. - the silent ballet

the organic and synthetic to summon up a mode that anticipates the current boom for all things folk. - norman

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