Stimming – Liquorice
Stimming – Liquorice
Diynamic
Review originally published in the March 2011 issue of IDJ Magazine
Review:
Stimming’s decision to follow the acclaimed Reflections with an album of beatless experimental track is brave, to say the least. Saturated with field recordings, discordant keys and soft unobtrusive drums, Liquorice has a skeletal and moribund feel to it – more stripped back than even his previously minimal offerings. Deft and tight construct is hampered throughout the album by a coldness and congeniality that distances the listen, whether on the weird chords and hissing gas-stove recordings of Cooking Coffee or the bubbling-synths and tribal drums of January, Second. Before you’re ready the melancholic violin conclusion of The Train appears and draws proceedings to a close before the album, with all its interesting ideas, has allowed itself to bloom into life.
Peter Adkins Copyright 2011
