Track of the Week
Today’s track of the week (or tracks of the week) comes from an album I got just a week ago, and it is easily a nomination for album of the year, as far as I am concerned. Some have described it as romantic electronica, and don’t be fooled, it is far from being as cheesy as it already sounds! I’m talking about Daedelus and his latest album Denies The Day’s Demise. Released this year on Ninja Tune, it really is 15 tracks of pure dynamite. It was tough choosing what to feature, but give this a go…
Daedelus - Sundown
>> download track
>> buy album @ Amazon US
This download link will expire on 28th October.
Not to blow my own trumpet, but usually if I make a real fuss over a record, there is good reason. I honestly cannot stress enough just how good this album is. Easily one of the best albums of 2006. Each time I listen to it I fall deeper in love with it. I’ve considered reviewing it, but I worry that I simply wont be able to put into words how I feel, or that it will end up spanning 5000 words! Anyway, enough of me creaming myself, check out another track…
Daedelus - Sunrise
>> download track
>> buy album @ Amazon US
This download link will expire on 28th October.
Make sure you listen to those tracks on at least half-decent headphones - if I find out you listened via shitty laptop speakers… I’ll shoot you. Albeit 15 tracks long, really the album needs to be listened to in one long go - it’s one of those “immerse yourself” type albums. Daedelus has this really bizarre, yet unique, style of being able to create such deep atmospheric electronica, from what would ordinarily be quite standard sounds from such a genre. It’s hard to put my finger on it, but it is like he has created these beautiful compositions, layered them so perfectly, that the blunt outer shell is dissolved somewhere along the way of the listening experience and the intricate innards are released for our aural pleasure. If you like the two tracks above, even just a little bit, you have to buy this album!
Useful links:
- Daedelus website
- Daedelus MySpace page
- Download - Daedelus - Sundown
- Buy Denies The Day’s Demise @ Amazon US
- Download - Daedelus - Sunrise
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Well… I have tried….. really hard with this album, but I just can’t… I listen to the first 5 tracks, and the 4th exhaust me so much, that I force myself to listen to the 5th, and that’s it, I can’t continue on listening to the rest.
I’m sorry 
Just this thing doesn’t pull my strings… I was hoping for some laid back hip-hop beats, and these totally broken, chaotic beats don’t speak to me :/
Well, that was just my opinion
Sounds like you’ve found out your problem right there; you were expecting hip-hop beats and you didn’t get them.
Yeah, that too, but it sort of reminds me of M83 which I don’t really like too… dunno… just too chaotic for me… But I was really trying
Well… you can only try!
You can try the best you can, the best you can is never enough
man, first regina and now daedalus - you keep posting up my favourite lps of this year
if booka shade is next i’m gonna get spooked out!!
nice site refix by the way, keep up the splendidness
tonyp
Ha ha, well actually I’ve not heard of Booka Shade, so off to check them out now! Which… means they could still very well be next weeks track of the week!
ahh you need to - movements is a excellent lp
night falls is especially nicenice
Daedelus quite rightly makes it into ppls top lists - dunno if you have caught his effort from last year “Exquisite Corpse”. This one made my ‘05 best list and has more of a hip-hop feel - if you call MF Doom rapping about the elephant man’s bones over a 50’s tv soundtrack hip hop.
If you dug the latin aspect of this album I recommend you check out Esquivel (who I think has some samples smattered throughout DDDD)
http://www.amazon.com/Space-Age-Bachelor-Pad-Music/dp/B0000048DR
oh yeah,
if you liked this you might like fellow Mush label mate Caural’s newie - “Mirrors for Eyes”. Another headphone overload.
Yeah I have Exquisite Corpse, another good one.