RICHARD H KIRK
LoopStatic
TONE12CD
Touch 2000
08 Tracks. 60mins46secs

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Richard H Kirk is more difficult to follow than a soap opera omnibus on Sunday afternoon. He has recorded under so many aliases, released four or five albums a year, none sounding quite like the one before, and on so many different labels, including his own, Alphaphone. The man though, is one of the greatest artists of the electronic scene.
With his latest release, LoopStatic, Kirk digs into his old electro industrial roots. Not that far apart from some of the later Cabaret Voltaire records, LoopStatic is a techno album like they used to make them in the mid eighties, with aggressive sounds, old skool synthesizers, relentless loops, saturated voices… This record could have been released in 1986 and would have sounded very modern. Kirk has recaptured the sounds, the atmospheres and the inspiration of these days. And he’s had fun playing with all that.
LoopStatic is probably not Kirk’s most evocative record, but, as we can feel the early signs of an eighties revival, this album is after all… ahead of its time. Please though, don’t go exhuming these horrible asymmetric shirts and stupid haircut yet!

3/5

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TRACKLIST

Devil In Your Name
All In Vain
With False Identity
Chemicals & Easter Bunnies
Do You Transmit?
One Zero
Get Our Head Straight
Monday Morning

RICHARD H KIRK Discography

THE SURFER'S GUIDE TO RICHARD H KIRK
Richard H Kirk
The Greedy Eye
Brainwashed/Cabaret Voltaire
Touch
Warp Records
Mute