Max Cooper: Unspoken Words (Mesh)
Max Cooper is the first techno act to play the Acropolis in Greece. Don’t say you never learn anything on this website. I don’t know what the Acropolis is. An ice cream parlour or something? The YouTube trailer for Unspoken Words displayed a giddy collage of surrealist images, presumably taken from the film project that accompanied the album. Microscopic organisms skittering, a skull made of flashing landscapes, petals spreading with mathematic precision. It was a decent reflection of the rich tapestry of sounds on the album.
Minimalistic synths creep through glitches of percussion, surging into emotive melody. Gleaming cinematic washes rise into heavenly ambience. It’s detailed and engaging, and was so very nearly my album of the year. I’ve looked up acropolis in a dictionary. Apparently, it’s an intense fear of heights. See, youre brain learnin intelliganse things while you read my blog.
Curious track: Ascent, which is more Eno than an Eno-shaped Eno at an Eno convention.
Album feels: It's like having a massage but it's clouds instead of hands, which you can get these days in modern parlours, I've checked.
Cover art: That princess woman's fascinator hat thing.
From another website: Repeated listens are a must as you can see where he drops these hints of what’s to come. This is everything, and more, that we have come to expect from Max Cooper. (Clash Music)
This is part of a series of the Best Electronic Music Albums of 2022. Read it all here.
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