Thursday, February 4, 2010

Bruce Gilbert, Insiding (CD)

Though I have never seen Insiding on vinyl (and by 1991, vinyl was around it's nadir), it's obviously intended for that format. There are two side-long tracks with little in common. The second piece, "Insiding" more resembles Bruce Gilbert's first two classic solo albums, with slowly evolving build structure. "Bloodlines" is splattery and confusing, a series of short bursts of divergent ideas with generally incoherent transitions between them. Both pieces rely on an overtly digital drum machine palette that's a radical departure from the analog palette of the early solo records and Dome.

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