"Wicker & Steel" reviewed by Juno Plus
29 July 2011
In an era where technology and cheap air travel guarantee that
electronic music is tarred with the same homogeneous brush as the rest
of globalised popular culture, Ali Wells has decided to make a decidedly
British techno album. By invoking two distinct strands of British
culture, eccentricity and industry - the latter at both at a societal
and musical level - Wells has firmly pinned his colours to a mast
marked ‘music-making English oddball’. The challenge is whether he can
represent these values without in the process looking like a token
dissenter from the borderless, incessant march of techno culture?
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