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- Summary: The experimental electronic artist used keyboards, guitars and effect pedals on his latest solo release.
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- Record Label: DFA
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Jul 21, 2016What Clams Casino specialises in and what makes this record a success is his ability to seemingly carve beats from ice, so cold is the production. His signature sounds otherworldly, with the breathy synths and crisp bass a soundtrack to some interstellar gang warfare.
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Jul 15, 2016Fun, typically subversive and largely memorable, Copeland’s latest work could be one of his most enduring, whether we were meant to hear it or not. Makes you wonder what else he’s got up his sleeve.
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Jul 28, 2016By virtue of its accessibility, Black Bubblegum presents itself as the most singular album Copeland has produced to date and who knows, maybe some pop bangers will be coming our way after all.
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Jul 11, 2016For Black Bubblegum Copeland turned his ear toward electronic pop music, but in a typically oblong way.
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The WireAug 19, 2016Black Bubblegum is Copeland's most surprising release for a long time; it's also perhaps the most obviously approachable record he has ever been involved with. [Aug 2016, p.48]
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Jul 12, 2016Even though the surface is smoother and and the vocals less garbled than usual, it’d be a mistake to read Bubblegum as a true unmasking. Filters swaddle Copeland’s voice throughout, distorting and distending it but stopping short of intelligibility; lyrically, he’s striking a tricky balance between deadpan nihilism and pop troubadour nostalgia.
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Q MagazineJul 8, 2016Black Bubblegum has a more amiable feel, assembling DIY jams inspired by Afrobeat and reggae, not to mention the fringes of Animal Collective's back Catalogue and Texan outlier Sun Araw. [Aug 2016, p.110]