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Yellow 6 | Overtone
Float away with Yellow6...
CD, Enraptured/Konkurrent
Tekst: Bas Ickenroth
Publicatiedatum: 08 april 2001
There's a fine line between ambient and postrock. Yellow 6 is an English artist who walks just that particular line and he's not bad in balancing. Jon Attwood - the person behind Yellow 6 - has been making this music since 1994, but 'Overtone' is the only full-length album so far. And it's quite a compelling album. Not ambient enough to compare it with Brian Eno or Biosphere, not postrock enough to compare it with Yume Bitsu or Sigur Ros either. But still it contains enough elements for fans of the above mentioned styles to enjoy. Not everything is from the same level as those artists though. There's not enough tension in the music for listening to the whole 71 minutes at once: just too little happening, drones that are just not hypnotising enough. 'Plastic wheels' is the perfect example: it sounds too sweet to capture your whole attention. But you feel it is in there and with future releases Yellow 6 will hopefully prove that he can maintain the level as presented in tracks like 'Snowmelt': an atmosphere as cold as Biosphere (hence the name), slightly Autechrian beats, beautifully feedbacking guitars. Absolutely chilling, this track. And I have to say that the second half of 'Overtone' convinces more me than the first. More experimental, more noise elements, more tension, thus better. If only the entire album could have been like this.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/yellow-6/overtone/146/
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