Edito de GapsOne of the earliest artists and musical activists in the Brighton scene that has spawned so many great bands of recent years, including several he has played in, it?s actually amazing that Monster Bobby has only just completed his debut album! It is the first of three albums that he will be doing with the upstart New York label Hypnote. Monster Bobby was able to help breathe some badly-needed life into the Brighton music scene, possibly best known because of the success of British Sea Power, whose lead singer left in 2005 to focus on his band Brakes, whose own Marc Beatty plays bass on Gaps and who was in many an early Brighton band with Monster Bobby. Much unlike his live shows, which basically involve Bobby with an acoustic guitar versus Dr. Sample, his electronic foil which seemingly also has a formidable mind of its own, the album instead features an ambitious assemblage of musicians and instrumentation as well as some new songs written especially for the album which might be unfamiliar to audiences. The album takes the pop sensibilities for which he is well-known and a bit of the "oddball singer/songwriter", whilst channeling in the spirits of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the groundbreaking consortium of electronic music pioneers that Bobby has extensively studied and interviewed over the years and will be essaying in the upcoming book "Hauntologies", along with contributions from Simon Reynolds among others. Although the album is entitled Gaps, the irony (not foreseen at the time it was titled), is that one of its notable features will be, precisely, the almost complete absence of any gaps between tracks, each one segued into the next with the aid of field recordings and other assorted noises and soundscapes. Expect the same endearing humour, dry wit, willfully obtuse song titles, unruly samples, emotional directness and of course catchy melodies, except done in a proper studio (OK, so it was mainly done in his mate?s bedroom...). There was actually some time spent in a real studio with a multitudinous array of instruments including bassoon, glockenspiel, tuba, cornet, piccolo, you name it! It is an unassuming little masterpiece. Lire la suite