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Electric
President Music sounds
different by the sea than at any other place: Burt Bacharach's Pacific Coast Highway,
Jim O'Rourke's Ghost Ship in a Storm, or those Teenage Symphonies to God which
Brian Wilson, being scared of water, composed in his Californian bedroom - complete
with artificial beach beneath his feet. Electric President's music throws a glance
at the sea as well. They drifted from Jacksonville Beach/Florida through the Atlantic
Ocean up to Berlin, from Ben Cooper to Morr Music. These ten songs interpret pop
as an ocean of impressions and sensations and surf on their own and special surge.
Ben Cooper, compiled his clear but complex pop-pearls along with Alex Kane, to
form their first self-titled album. Continuously, Cooper's soft but still precise
idiom drifts into our ears, as a flattering yearning. And maybe it is this voice
that describes his music's agenda best: stripped, immediate and at the same time
interwoven with euphonic choirs. Some people might be reminded of Death Cab for
Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard - but without the teenage angst. Ben Cooper is a songwriter
and arranger; he is a guitarist, drummer, laptop artist
The order of these
occupations is determined by his music and his moods. At times intimate and reduced,
as in Grand Machine No. 12, enriched only by means of a few digital clicks and
some heart-warming backing vocals. In other instances, it's hymnal and interlocking,
as in the sunny opening song: Good Morning, Hypocrite. Maybe they are melancholic
- as melancholic as splendid pop songs mostly are. Ben Cooper has written shiny
pop songs, has arranged and recorded them with Alex Kane over the course of eight
months. Bedroom recordings in the best sense, however, with little in common with
lofi. The only approach they share is to keep one's musical ideas very close to
the heart and give over as little as possible to other's hands.
Links www.electricpresident.com
www.fakefourinc.com
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