{"id":1216,"date":"2009-06-01T10:34:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T09:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2009-06-01T10:34:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T09:34:19","slug":"microfilm-international-velvet-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"microfilm : international velvet ep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/intl_velvet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"240\" alt=\"intl_velvet\" src=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/intl_velvet_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\"><u>tracklisting        <br \/><\/u>1. international velvet       <br \/>2. bff       <br \/>3. a certain sacrifice       <br \/>4. santorini       <br \/>5. if there be thorns       <br \/>6. international velvet (angel theory remix)       <br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1086\">last year<\/a> i was fortunate enough to be given the chance to hear the gorgeous <strong>microfilm<\/strong> album, <font color=\"#008080\">the slingshot orchestra<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p>while the album was a predominantly about the downbeat beauty of machine made music, the lads obviously from time to time wanted to kick out a beat and have a little party in the studio.<\/p>\n<p>subsequently these leftover recordings that didn&#8217;t quite fit the sumptuous mood, have now been put together for a standalone ep.<\/p>\n<p>the throbbing synths crunchier, beats tougher, the mood more upbeat, basically, a perfect monday morning kick start.<\/p>\n<p>the disconnected vocals are treated and processed, with some sections sounding like an <u>ed banger<\/u> revision of <strong>ministry<\/strong>s electro period in which other highlights include :     <br \/>a great <strong>depeche mode<\/strong> styled twang forms the basis for <font color=\"#008080\">bff<\/font>,     <br \/>ibeeefa piano riffs clash with bleeps and synthetic strings, <font color=\"#008080\">a certain sacrifice<\/font>,     <br \/>and pinball table samples create an interesting beat during the pop hook heavy lead track <font color=\"#008080\">international velvet<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p>as with the album, this ep is only available as a download, and even though 2009 is all about the girls and their love for updated synth pop, perhaps you should make room for <strong>microfilm<\/strong> in your collection.<\/p>\n<p>highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microfilmmusic.com\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; tracklisting 1. international velvet 2. bff 3. a certain sacrifice 4. santorini 5. if there be thorns 6. international velvet (angel theory remix) last year i was fortunate enough to be given the chance to hear the gorgeous microfilm album, the slingshot orchestra. while the album was a predominantly about the downbeat beauty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singles-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}