構成数 | 1枚

合計収録時間 | 00:46:17

Amp: Karine Charff (vocals); Richard Amp (guitar, piano, organ, harmonium, synthesizer, bass, sound effects); Olivier Gauthier (programming). Additional personnel: Frank Booth (guitar, harmonium, bass); John Cooper (piano). Engineers include: David Wrench. Recorded at Bryn Derwen, North Wales & Thirst, South London, England. Expanding upon the ideas of such atmospheric-pop predecessors as My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteau Twins, San Francisco's Amp represent some sort of last outpost of pop music: their albums near-obsessively examine the point where pop songs cease to exist as such and become pure ambient waves of sound. What creates Amp's peculiar tension is that the songs are never allowed to dissolve into formless soundscapes in the manner of many ambient artists, but retain a structural integrity rooted in classic pop-song forms. STENORETTE, the band's third full album, is actually the group's most overtly song-oriented work, its 12 relatively concise tracks featuring larger doses of the ghostly female vocals and piano-based melodies that made sporadic appearances on the band's earlier releases, SIRENES and ASTRALMOONBEAMPROJECTIONS.

録音 | ステレオ (Studio)