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MH-224 Her Space Holiday - The Young Machines  Change... love... death... infidelity... confession... a break up. Marc Bianchi is nearly surgical in his ability to slice delicate songs of love, loss, hope, despair, and optimism out of one very hard year. His striking new release as Her Space Holiday is The Young Machines, an authentic foray into intelligent dream-pop. The production is everything you have come to expect from Her Space Holiday; intricate string arrangements, analog synth patterns, lush guitar-like drones and tasteful drum programming abound, but it is the songwriting that elevates the album to its elite status. Traditional song structures take unexpected turns throughout, highlighting introspection and vulnerability most often missing in electronic music. The Young Machines is a ten-song encapsulation of a year on the edge and Her Space Holiday's most complete and personal release. |
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| Gentle, beautiful and unspeakably sad - New York Times / Rapturous and bittersweet, The Young Machines is a soothing swoon - Entertainment Weekly / Terrific stuff - Q / A beautiful bittersweet record - Under The Radar / Often on a par with the very best of Elliott Smith - Uncut / The finest Her Space Holiday release - Pulse / Bianchi has made the album of his life - Logo |
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| Dream-pop has to be the most nebulous term yet invented, unless, that is, you've ever heard the work of Mark Bianchi. As Her Space Holiday, Bianchi crafts transcendent electronic lullabies out of assorted soft-focus images and various shades of beige, filtering them through an aural kaleidoscope to leave spectral, brittle, exquisitely honed fireflies that drift through your subconscious. Though, by its very nature, electronica is a precise, aloof medium, Bianchi's human hand is evident, using loops and samples as a mere starting point for the kind of gorgeously effervescent melodies that both Brian Wilson and George Martin would doubtless be deploying were they striving to make their mark today. Bianchi has made the album of his life, which is exactly what we thought about his earlier work. - Logo |
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