Everyday Life

Unoccupied (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 18, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: CDBY
• ASIN: B001MYIU6Y
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,491,107 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Unoccupied - Everyday Life, December 25, 2008

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J. Jury "Morpheusmusic.co.uk" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everyday Life (Audio CD)

STYLE
Downtempo electro songs and alternative, ambient pop. Unoccupied present an album of fresh synthetic melodies, clean guitar textures and heavily effected voices. The sound is distantly reminiscent of the synth music of the early nineteen eighties, yet these simple retro roots support a growth of contemporary expression and a deceptively sophisticated depth of sound. Liquid chimes, electric guitar and digital tones deliver gentle themes over clear washes and faint atmospheres. The mostly unobtrusive beats have a bright programmed sound - sometimes bouncy, uncomplicated affairs, sometimes subtle structures of spacious blips and clicks. The vocals are loosely 'songs' in that lyrics are sung (they are also spoken, narrated, whispered and almost chanted), but the words are drenched in FX, vocoder distortion sometimes stretching the human origins of the sound to the edge of recognition.

MOOD
Everyday life has a pleasant, wistful quality about it - accessible and inviting, touched with a thread of light lament. The low pace to the music builds on the somewhat nocturnal mood that many tracks create - restful and introspective (musing narration expanding the reflective aspects) and even invitingly soporific, sending the listener into dreamy drifting. At times there is a hint of the machine music of a few decades back, but Unoccupied consistently soften this side of their sound, happy to be human - organic and

ARTWORK
A warm indoor evening orange bathes the artwork of this album. Shiny apples softly lit against rich hazy backgrounds. The red fruit on the front cover is encircled by a tape measure that bears the title of the disc. My promo copy unfolds to provide a description of the project on the rear with a bit of background information on the Unoccupied artists. Inside three green apples, two red - strong colours on a dark ground. Track titles are here as well as a more detailed discussion of the personalities behind the music.

OVERALL
Unoccupied are Israel based musicians Nadav Katz & Eitan Reiter. Nadav plays guitar, keyboards, bass and drums as well as working as a sound engineer, programmer and mastering engineer. Eitan is also "a multitalented genre-crossing artist" writing techno, electro, downtempo electronic and psychedelic chillout music under his own name, with his debut album to be released in Aleph Zero in 2009. Everyday life is released via Aleph Zero records. Initially this album might appear to be of a different nature to the label's previous output - however, the sharp electronics and deeply chilled nature of the music actually is very much in keeping with Aleph Zero's house sound. Not only that, Aleph Zero is label that is committed to widening its musical field of output, delivering high quality, visionary sounds that both stretch and blur the traditional boundaries.

WHO WILL LIKE THIS ALBUM
Everyday Life takes the blissful clarity and chilled beauty of downtempo electronica and presents it with something of a pop approach. If you enjoy subtle wellsongs and produced chillout why not explore the album e-flier: [...]
All the tracks on the album can be sampled here and there's plenty of background information too.