Andy Bell - pinball wanderer (2025) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Andy Bell
- Title: pinball wanderer
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: Sonic Cathedral
- Genre: Alternative, Indie, Psychedelia
- Quality: FLAC 24-Bit/48 kHz; 16-Bit/44.1 kHz; MP3 320 kbps
- Total Time: 00:36:59
- Total Size: 85; 226; 445 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Album review
Andy Bell—the Ride guitarist who also played bass in the final days of Oasis—has crafted an album equally great for running or resting, thinking intensely or totally zoning out. All that utility is courtesy of hypnotic grooves, no two remotely the same, you can't help but lock into. "apple green ufo" is eight-plus minutes of a transcendental, Stone Roses-esque rumbling bass line, but also a sneaky, snaky guitar melody and bright, traffic jam horn noises. Or, as Bell explains the magic: "I had this riff on an acoustic and it was kind of like one of those Led Zeppelin folk bangers, but I brought it into the Serge Gainsbourg world and gave it a glass of absinthe." Sure, why not? "i'm in love…"—a feathery cover of the The Passions's icy "I'm in Love With a German Film Star"—rides an equally mesmeric groove and warms things up with gauzy, echo-heavy vocal perfection from Dot Allison. Michael Rother of Neu! joins in on guitar, and a heavy buzz drone intermittently saws through the ethereal lightness. Bell has said he thinks of the post-punk original, which he used to play at Ride soundchecks, as "proto shoegaze," which really means something coming from one of the genre's '90s pioneers. But don't expect much of that on pinball wanderer, which is produced with his former Oasis bandmate Gem Archer. Instead, Bell calls on his love of Syd Barrett trippiness: The instrumental title track taps into it with breathy flute, twangy guitar and a slip-slide bottom end, while "madder lake deep" mixes up psychedelia and Cocteau Twins dreaminess. Catchy "panic attack" throbs and ping-pongs, and "music concrete" is like living in a retro video game dusted with Can-style synth blerps and a disco funk beat. And "space station mantra" is tactile topography—rising and falling with scratchy drums and buttery, entranced vocals, as spiky, slow-moving guitar offers a beacon on the horizon. And that groove? Here, it traverses the fine line between being hypnotic and delirious. © Shelly Ridenour
Tracklist:
1 panic attack
2 I'm in love...
3 madder lake deep
4 apple green ufo
5 pinball wanderer
6 music concrete
7 the notes you never hear
8 space station mantra
Andy Bell—the Ride guitarist who also played bass in the final days of Oasis—has crafted an album equally great for running or resting, thinking intensely or totally zoning out. All that utility is courtesy of hypnotic grooves, no two remotely the same, you can't help but lock into. "apple green ufo" is eight-plus minutes of a transcendental, Stone Roses-esque rumbling bass line, but also a sneaky, snaky guitar melody and bright, traffic jam horn noises. Or, as Bell explains the magic: "I had this riff on an acoustic and it was kind of like one of those Led Zeppelin folk bangers, but I brought it into the Serge Gainsbourg world and gave it a glass of absinthe." Sure, why not? "i'm in love…"—a feathery cover of the The Passions's icy "I'm in Love With a German Film Star"—rides an equally mesmeric groove and warms things up with gauzy, echo-heavy vocal perfection from Dot Allison. Michael Rother of Neu! joins in on guitar, and a heavy buzz drone intermittently saws through the ethereal lightness. Bell has said he thinks of the post-punk original, which he used to play at Ride soundchecks, as "proto shoegaze," which really means something coming from one of the genre's '90s pioneers. But don't expect much of that on pinball wanderer, which is produced with his former Oasis bandmate Gem Archer. Instead, Bell calls on his love of Syd Barrett trippiness: The instrumental title track taps into it with breathy flute, twangy guitar and a slip-slide bottom end, while "madder lake deep" mixes up psychedelia and Cocteau Twins dreaminess. Catchy "panic attack" throbs and ping-pongs, and "music concrete" is like living in a retro video game dusted with Can-style synth blerps and a disco funk beat. And "space station mantra" is tactile topography—rising and falling with scratchy drums and buttery, entranced vocals, as spiky, slow-moving guitar offers a beacon on the horizon. And that groove? Here, it traverses the fine line between being hypnotic and delirious. © Shelly Ridenour
Tracklist:
1 panic attack
2 I'm in love...
3 madder lake deep
4 apple green ufo
5 pinball wanderer
6 music concrete
7 the notes you never hear
8 space station mantra
| Rock | Alternative | Indie | FLAC / APE | Mp3 | HD & Vinyl
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