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Signer
New Face of Smiling
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Low Light Sleep
2. Hurricane or Sunshine?
3. I Was Dressed as the Ant, You Dressed up as Beehive
4. Machines at Low Tide
5. Frozen Cut Grass
6. You're Killing Us Helen
7. That Sinking Feeling as Key Metal Hits Thing Flesh
8. Komputa Ga Bukowarera
9. The Overwhelming Power of Friendship
10. Your Ears Across the Fences

CD Details

All Artists: Signer
Title: New Face of Smiling
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Carpark Records
Release Date: 9/14/2004
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock
Styles: Ambient, IDM, Techno, Experimental Music, Dance Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 677517002720, 677517002751

Synopsis

Album Description

In 2002, we called it Nu-Indie. That pissed people off (who knew?). At the time, New Zealand's Bevan Smith successfully married the digital and analog worlds with SIGNER'S Low Light Dreams. Now the honeymoon is over and this couple is in it for the long haul. No longer are the two distinct; they have become one. Bevan spent some time listening to his favorite indie slow-jams (JOY DIVISION, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, Laughingstock-era TALK TALK et.al) and decided he should make the first proper fuzzed-out pop gem of the 21st century. SIGNER?S The New Face of Smiling chews on all of Bevan's experience in indie bands and electronica and spits them back out into something brand new yet somehow familiar. Those with a sense of humor can call it "Nu-Gazing."

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CD Reviews

This is My Face Smiling, thanks Signer.

T. A. Scovell | Auckland, New Zealand | 06/24/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Signer's new album is not genre defying it is genre surpassing. Taking the precision and control that electronica has over music and infusing it with an indie-guitar sound that threatens to tear the controls loose, which it then does, then relinquishes. Whether in the space of the shortest sub 2-minute songs, where the fight is most obvious and intense, exquisite electronic beat poetry, to the lush longer pieces where the analog and electronic worlds seem to be having more of a philosophical debate than a scrap. Its accessibility intrigues on first listen and with subsequent repeats you find yourself wanting to take sides as you discover the depths of elements poured into it. Until you realise that this album is a rare thing indeed in this subgenre splintered world, just great... "music"."