Wicker & Steel - one of the albums of the year 2011
5 December 2011
"Album highlight 'London, We Have You Surrounded' is stark and
pummeling, all metallic percussion, but four minutes through finds its
mood suddenly lightens with the arrival of soft, reedy tones in the
background. And penultimate track 'Snow Chain' could almost be described
as pretty, its slow rhythmic churn and flickering melodies bringing to
mind the dubbier moments of Demdike Stare's Voices Of Dust. Its
presumed status as interlude matters little in the context of the album;
rather than remaining a collection of dancefloor tracks interspersed
with mood pieces, Wicker & Steel's success is that it
convincingly blurs the boundaries between the two. The result is an
involving and addictive album-length statement." Rory Gibb
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