
Welcome to the oddly fashioned world of Die Hard. You have to wonder what's going through the heads of these guys, it literally makes no sense and we completely love it. The album mixes clear sparkling production of instruments with sampled human and background noise – throwing a load of lase-like synths and marching layered downbeats on top. The first track, In The Garden , is very pretty and very strange. You don't expect gorgeous acoustic guitar and strings to be accompanied by a choir of menacing, distorted voices ... a creepy opener indeed. [...]
Right, I've been neglecting this poor blog. It's about time I started putting more stuff on it. And I have a plan to make that happen. I listen to a lot of new music, but I don't always get to write about the stuff I come across that I like in CMU because there's just too much of it - these days I don't write as much of the Approved column in CMU as I used to. Things pile up, the moment passes. And, if I'm honest, sometimes I just forget. So, my plan is to start pulling together [...]