Editorial Reviews
Compulsion
Music Review:
Music Review
Going West, Looking East [Enhanced]
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Joshua Glazer, AllMusic Guide
...it's pure ambient bliss-out that would make Pete Namlook blush
About the Artist
Arnar Helgi Adalsteinsson and Vilhjalmur Pálsson form the Icelandic multi-instrumentalist duo Plat. In order to transcend the "soulless" appellation often bound to electronic music, Arnar & Villi are determined to overcome the technical barrier between an idea and its execution. "We try and approach the computer as any other instrument, we need its feedback and we have to be able to do the wrong thing at the right moment. Capturing that moment is very important to the Plat philosophy -... read more
Album Description
Ten lush, melodious tracks make up Compulsion, their debut release on Unschooled Records. Coumpulsion combines abstract electronic structures and beautiful melodies with live drums and guitar. Although they claim not to be inspired by nature most listeners will find themselves ensconced in fields of subtile sonic hues with new vistas on eachhorizon...compelled to listen again and again...