[Friends of Friends & Exponential : 2010]Considering that around the Album Of The Week listening quarters we are generally (and evidently) favorable to a great hook and a singalong chorus, as far as instrumental music goes it takes something pretty fucking epic to make our collective jaws hit the tiles [See Apricot Rail’s debut]. Ernest Gonzales and his astounding electronic opus Been Meaning To Tell You led to more split chins than a roomful of fly kicking Chuck Norris’s.
From the album’s opening song “Dancing In The Snow”, we knew that this was a special record - beatboxing, xylophonic tinkering, knob twiddling blips, fuzzy synth chords and flamenco guitar slowly add to the layers in the track that gracefully kicks off the record.
Throughout Been Meaning To Tell You both digital and analogue instruments and recording methods are effortlessly interchanged – incredible live guitar riffs mixed in with programmed beats and synth drones. “Etchasketch Trees” is a particularly nice example of the melding of both worlds (although a bad name, we can admit). But technicalities aside, most of all, the way Ernest Gonzales manages to hook you in is the way he creates a mood – a particular feeling. For an album without words, it certainly manages to connect on a very human level.
If you like The Postal Service you will adore this album. If you listen to music so you can “feel” something you will adore this album. One of our favourites from the year so far.
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