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Album Review: Semaphore

  • Artist: Fridge
  • Rating: StarStarStarStar
  • Release Date: March 16, 1998
  • Genre: Electronica

Review

Fridge's second studio album is simultaneously sprawling and streamlined, a dense, wildly eclectic work which, while epic in scope, is rendered with exacting precision and minimalist grace. Darker and more enigmatic than the trio's previous outings, Semaphore possesses a sensual allure that the studied musings of their post-rock peers otherwise lack -- "A Slow," as lugubrious and muted as its title suggests, is also insinuatingly lovely, while the liquid basslines, squawking saxophones and the whispered spoken-word samples of "Lo Fat Diet" evoke a sinister dreaminess. "Lign," which clocks in at just 18 seconds, is in its way the quintessential Fridge moment -- beautiful, hypnotic, but always just out of reach. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Cassette Fridge (1:23)
Furniture Boy Fridge (7:09)
A Slow Fridge (4:13)
Motorbus Fridge (7:27)
Teletexed Fridge (4:06)
Chroma Fridge (6:08)
Lo Fat Diet Fridge (6:37)
Swerve and Spin Fridge (4:07)
Curdle Fridge (4:53)
Lign Fridge (:18)
Stamper Fridge (4:56)
There Is No Try Fridge (1:19)
Micheal Knight Fridge (8:32)

Credits

Kieran Hebden (Band), Jason Evans (Photography), Sam Jeffers (Band)
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Semaphore
Studio album by Fridge
Released 16 March 1998
Label Output Recordings
Professional reviews
Fridge chronology
Ceefax
(1997)
Semaphore
(1998)
Eph
(1999)

Semaphore is the second studio album by Fridge, released on 16 March 1998.

Track listing

  1. "Cassette" (1:23)
  2. "Furniture Boy" (7:09)
  3. "A Slow" (4:13)
  4. "Motorbus" (7:27)
  5. "Teletexed" (4:06)
  6. "Chroma" (6:08)
  7. "Lo Fat Diet" (6:37)
  8. "Swerve And Spin" (4:07)
  9. "Curdle" (4:53)
  10. "Lign" (0:18)
  11. "Stamper" (4:56)
  12. "There Is No Try" (1:19)
  13. "Michael Knight" (8:32)

 
 

 

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