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- Artist(s): Stephen Mallinder, Phil Winter, Benge
- Summary: This is the debut electronic release for the collaboration from Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder, producer Ben Edwards, and Tunng's Phil Winter.
- Record Label: Memetune
- Genre(s): Electronic, Club/Dance
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May 16, 2014Wrangler make vibrant, organic electronic music that respects the genre’s history while turning a fresh page.
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May 28, 2014Winter and Benge often seem to be living out their fantasy of being Cabaret Voltaire members as the bloops, the bubbles, and the time-rips are all familiar devices, but so be it, and more please, and another listen for this one as well.
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May 16, 2014It is, perhaps, a measure of Wrangler’s combined abilities that they’re able to coax their formula into subtly-defined shapes and guises without LA Spark descending into repetitious indulgence.
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Q MagazineMay 20, 2014Like every era of electronic music all balled up together, CCTV and subways, excitement and fear. [Jun 2014, p.123]
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UncutMay 16, 2014Wrangler's LA Spark is textbook industrial electropop--nothing wildly new but at its best on "Lava Land" and "Space Ace" it's a compelling listen. [Jun 2014, p.85]
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MojoMay 16, 2014Wrangler's is a twitching, throbbing, mildly dystopian sound-world of vivid analogue synthesizer tones, overlaid with heavily processed vocals. [Jun 2014, p.96]