Parisian
prince of icy class Colder presents his second suite of electronic
lullabies, Heat. Heat is a peerless collection of electro/acoustic
songs, combining elements of electro, dub, noise, and elegant
pop, all coated in a dense, smoky haze of sophistication and
restraint that could only have come from France.
Marc
Nguyen Tan released his first album, Again, under the Colder
moniker last year, drawing favourable comparisons with compatriots
Air and Daft Punk, as well as the timeless class of Kraftwerk,
Can and Joy Division. The album garnered Album Of The Week reviews
in The Sunday Times and the NME and Album Of The Month in Jockey
Slut, as well as earning the tick of approval from influential
publications like Rolling Stone, Tokion, XLR8R, URB and many
more.
With
the last year spent touring to support the release of Again in
the US, UK, Europe and of course Australia, Marc started writing
songs for the new album, inspired more by a sense of love and
loss than the unconditional crazy love which was the motivation
behind Again. The result is Heat. Still unmistakably Colder,
complete with the dark grooves and shimmery textures that made
Again so stunning, Heat draws on a more diverse range of influences,
with his trademark robotic digifunk evolving into a more pulsing,
upbeat and varied beast. Methodical, but less linear, and more
emotive than ever before, Heat’s strength is that it doesn’t
try to tap into any particular vogue. It sounds like Colder,
nothing else.
The
first track to be taken off Heat is Wrong Baby, a possible dancefloor
stalker of dark/light opposites. With it’s gloomy, stiff
bass and drum intro, and contrasting shooting star synth melody,
Wrong Baby is the perfect introduction to that rare thing – a
sophomore album that surpasses a brilliant debut.
Q+A
| NAME: |
marc
|
| AGE
YOU WISH YOU COULD STAY: |
don't
really care |
| ROLE
IN BAND: |
recording
- did everything; band - vocals, electronics |
| FIRST
RECORD: |
I
don't really remember … I think it was a tape from depeche
mode" black celebration and I was 9 or 10 years old … |
| LAST
RECORD: |
meat
beat manifesto, "in dub" |
| TOP
10 SONGS: |
my
chronological top 10, from early years until now:
01. gyorgi ligeti - "lux aeterna"
02. einsturzende neubauten - "tanz debil" on "kollaps
album
03. coil - "teenage lightning" on "love secret diagram"
04. current 93' and douglas pierce - "hello angels" on "swastikas
for nobody"
05. skinny puppy - "church" on "bites"
06. brian eno - "no one's receiving" on "before and
after science"
07. durutti column - "sketch for summer" on "valuable
passages" / chris and cosey - "red october"
08. nick drake - "never man"
09. vincent gallo - "laura"
10. mark hollis - "a life" |
| FAVOURITE
POP STAR: |
i
don't have any |
| FAVOURITE
COLOUR: |
depends
on what it's supposed to be used
for/with...but i recently had a crush on a camo pattern called M90,
it's swedish. |
| IF
YOU WERE AN ANIMAL YOU WOULD BE: |
i
like watching animals sometimes,
though i wouldn't like to be one of them. |
| LAST
TIME YOU CRIED: |
2
days ago, last time I watched TV, but it was actually a cry
of laugh, I was with a friend watching a US TV game which
was so stupid ( I mean really dumb…) we ended up laughing
and crying for at least 20 minutes … |
| WHAT"S
YOUR GREATEST VICE: |
laziness
|
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