310

310: Dirty Rope [Vinyl LP]

310: Dirty Rope [CD]

310: After All [Vinyl LP]

A love song for the melting of the polar ice caps' Sonic storytellers 310's fifth album. The seamless mix of songs and instrumental pieces creates a deep river of sound that more than repays repeated listening. Formulated around themes of cities and oceans, streets and rivers, the album takes elements of music from the last three decades to synthesise something that could only have been created in the 21st Century. The aquatic travelogue is perhaps most apparent in the lyrics to 'Pacific Gravity', a track that was introduced as an instrumental on the group's 1999 album, The Dirty Rope.

310: After All [CD]

Downtown & Brooklyn Only is a re-issue of the first two albums by NYC duo 310 - Snorkelhouse and AUG 56 - originally released in 1998 and 1997 respectively. Snorkelhouse - the album that got them noticed by The Leaf Label in the first place - is filled with hypnotic loops and rhythms, fusing hiphop sensibilities with shadowy found sounds and distant voices. The sound of the city beneath your feet. It has a dynamic all its own: at once dense, spacious, atmospheric, hypnogogic. You really need to let it live in your head for a while... AUG 56 is like finding yourself up to the receding-hairline in a puddle which you'd misjudged to be ankle-deep. Proceedings get progressively darker starting with the first yards of 'Global Illage', a shadowland somewhere between :zoviet*france: and DJ Spooky.

A love song for the melting of the polar ice caps' Sonic storytellers 310's fifth album. The seamless mix of songs and instrumental pieces creates a deep river of sound that more than repays repeated listening. Formulated around themes of cities and oceans, streets and rivers, the album takes elements of music from the last three decades to synthesise something that could only have been created in the 21st Century. The aquatic travelogue is perhaps most apparent in the lyrics to 'Pacific Gravity', a track that was introduced as an instrumental on the group's 1999 album, The Dirty Rope.