Sheath

LFO (Dance & DJ)

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 6, 2003)
• Original Release Date: September 23, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warp Records
• ASIN: B0000C668I
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #143,415 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
2003 album from the Leeds based electronic duo of Mark Bell & Gez Varley. These guys have produced mixes for Afrika Babbaata, YMO and Art Of Noise. 11 tracks. Warp.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tread the dawn on this one, October 3, 2003

By	Electrohound "electronic music junkie" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

It's been a depressing few years in many respects for electronic music. With parties being shut down, a post 9/11 world depression, war, and a once robust indie music industry floundering and selling-out, we techno-friends find ourselves these days uninspired, abandoned, and surrounded by cheesy, wimpy deep house music, pretentious glitch hop and superstar DJs scrounging for the last drops. But there's still a lot of life in there. And we just need the best artists to step up and remind us. Techno music is still vital no matter what anyone says. And Mark Bell's first album in seven years proves it! Sheath couldn't have come at a better time. From the hard-as-nails "Mum-man" to the funky, rave throughback "Freak" to the wistful "Premacy," to the muscular beats and dulcet melodies of "Moistly," LFO rocks it with Sheath. In some ways, after years of loving and supporting this music, I personally was just about ready to through my hands up on the whole thing and become a techno dinosaur, relegate it all to some mythic past, but Sheath is a very bright spot indeed, beaming off the horizon. Maybe truly inspired music and the cultures that inspire it and support it will come back up out of the dumps. Maybe in an age of Mp3-kills-the-music, good popular music and good popular artists will survive after all. Techno or electronica or whatever it is, may need to progress and change, but that feeling that the rave heyday and the prolific brilliance of '90s electronica once captured still cuts true like a knife through the pop music butter. Jack back into it. Get into Sheath.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT!, November 6, 2003

By A Customer

This is by far one of my favorite electronic albums out there.
Not too minimal like Autechre or Richard Devine but not too clubby like Underworld or zongamin. Just right in the middle. It's perfect!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Energizing, July 10, 2004

By A Customer

The Sheath album is such a crisp clean modern sounding collection. My favorite title is Freak which sounds like something you can dance your ass off in a techno club. And a few others of the songs are very mystical sounding. I recommend this album.