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- Summary: The follow-up solo release to ex-Talk Talk bassist Paul Webb's 2002 collaboration with Portishead's Beth Gibbons was home-recorded with Lee Harris on drums.
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- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Feb 1, 2019Occasionally, one is reminded of Broadcast at their most pastoral, for that same determination to find or found some timeless folk tradition of their own. It’s gorgeous.
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Mar 12, 2019All in all, the album is a genial bird’s eye view of life presented in aphorism, perspectives from a man well aware of his aging and embracing it. There’s something joyful even in the moments of tension, as if their eventual dissipation is a given.
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Mar 25, 2019It is a very human experience, and if you can work past the occasional awkwardness of the vocal by spending more time with it then listening treasures await.
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Feb 12, 2019What Webb has created is so rich, so delightfully off-kilter, that an auxiliary listen is necessary the same way another sip of pickleback is necessary.
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Feb 6, 2019Drift Code doesn’t sound like Talk Talk (nor anything that could be described as “post-rock”), but what it shares with the band’s best work is both the sense of being adrift in time and a meticulous approach to production. These arrangements flicker with intricate melodic detail and nonconventional instrumentation.
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UncutJan 30, 2019If Drift Code can't quite match the rural psychodrama of its predecessor, it boasts its own quizzical magic. [Mar 2019, p.32]
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Q MagazineFeb 4, 2019It's an impressive art-rock construction, just not one that easily fits into every space. [Mar 2019, p.118]
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