Nobody - Pacific Drift
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Artist: NobodyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2003-09-09
Music Label: Ubiquity
Soundtracks:
- Coming Up To The Surface...
- White Folding Slowly (Into Blue Remix)
- The Beaches On Neptune
- Porpoise Song
- Interlude 1
- After The Summer Hits
- Psilo-Cycling (Trip 'Round The Block)
- Images Of April
- Interlude 2/Sioux's Rain Part III (Insect Trust Dub)
- What Fall Brings
- This Will Be Our Year
- Interlude 3
- Electro-Acoustic
- Headspace
- I Won't Hurt You
- Going Under...
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Music Review: Electro-acoustic
Rating: 4 Stars
Anything that opens with twangy electronic swooshes is either going to be deeply annoying or weirdly charming. Fortunately Nobody's "Pacific Drift: Western Water Music 1" manages to be the latter -- once the twangs die away, what is left is an album of sweet, sunny electronica with a watery edge.
After the deeply irritating "Coming Up To the Surface," the album evens out into a sweep of airy, slow-flowing electronic ditties. Some -- like "Porpoise Song" -- border on ambient music, with their aimless tunes and calculated lack of momentum. These tend to feel like filler, as they never quite move one way or the other.
But there are also plenty of stirring pop ditties, like the warmly catchy "After the Summmer Hits," or the chirrupy springtime tune "Images of April." In the last quarter of the album, a slightly darker tone comes into the songs, with quiet intonations of "I won't hurt you...," solemn organ and razor-edged keyboard work.
"Pacific Drift" feels a bit like lying on a beach, on a slightly cloudy day in summer. Rather than the hip-hop of his previous album, Nobody strays into psychedelica here -- sort of the love child of DJ Shadow and the Beach Boys. It's also backed by Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel and the Postal Service, Ikey Owens of the Mars Volta, two members of Beachwood Sparks. Hello, indie superalbum.
Atmosphere is everything in "Pacific Drift," which took four years to craft and perfect. Bird samples are pasted in, and despite a few odd "Interludes" (is that an engine or a cricket?) the feeling that comes out of almost every song is one of magic.
Nobody is otherwise known as Elvin Estela, and his psych-sampling is absolutely exquisite here: melodic one moment, ambient the next, and sparkling after that. He missteps with the programming here and there -- "Headspace" starts off with a burst of sonic burps -- yet when he does it right, the exquisite fragility of his music is unparalleled.
Enchanting and beautiful, "Pacific Drift: Western Water Music 1" overflows with sunshine and sixties psychedelica, laced with a bit of fragile prettiness. Definitely one to get.
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