TEAM RNS PRESENTS

TITLE: Plans For A Modern City

LABEL: Different Drummer

RIPPER: TEAM RNS

177kbps avg - Lo-Fi
0hr 55min total- 73.4mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-10-18
RIP DATE: 2004-11-12

02 On The Bus                     3:11

04 Cymbaline & Celeste            3:32

06 How We Behave                  6:25

Where did this one come from?
Floating down from one of last summers
brilliant blue skies?
Sliding in from a parallel dimension?
Music that is genuinely
different is very rare to find. Heres
some. Representing a shift
change in down-tempo. Here come Dollboy
with something as
beautiful as the Penguin Caf and as
pastoral as a July day in

Dollboy have moved the ambient agenda on

mid-nineties benchmarks made by Global

and Another Fine Day (Life Before Land).

debut recording benefits from the live
work the group have
developed at their night in The River
Bar at Londons famous
London Bridge. This confidence gathered

manifests itself well in the studio.
The music moves forward in
strong melodic waves in an impressively

three-dimensional manner. Refreshingly
free from the linear
tram-tracks of much desktop composition,
it is brilliantly
self-sustaining and atmospheric.

Electronic Music went from the Digital

Analogue in the nineties. In the 21st

are back and you wont find a better
collection of sonorities
and textures than you do here. Pedal
steel guitars, warm
keyboards, muted trumpets, harmonica and

wash over lazy, rolling beats and
atmospheric sound effects.

Space swooshes and lonely horns frame

call vocals on "China". The most

piano track since Erik Saties Gymnopedies

"Cymbeline & Celeste" will stay with
you a long time after
pause has been pressed. Rolling synths
and spangly xylophone
punctuation form a platform for an
ethereal choir in the shadowy
soundscape of "Aisle 9" Check the
cracked trumpet phrasing
on "In Silence" for deep resonance. Some
of the finest pedal
steel playing this side of BJ Cole
graces the majestic "Hatterjax",
a shimmering epic of a track. And
finally, float to the shore on the
languid waters of "Splash".

This is a lavish production, organic
and full of depth.
The instrumentation has been given the

which the playing and material
deserves. Its like wide-awake
sleeping in a warm bath. Listen to this
on the side of a hill or
use it as a survival tool for urban
living (with or without the bath).

Then close your eyes, relax, and float