Further DetailsOld BonesA Touch of Class ATC021 (2xLP)
THE WIRE September 2008 issue
Further Details is Paul Hammond, owner of London's Real Soon label, and his debut album is a superb collection of muted, vintage-inspired, downbeat House of the sort that his own label champions. Each track is a mishmash of sorts - of jazz samples, jittery drum machine sequences and aquamarine analogue keyboards. Moodymann and Theo Parrish are obvious influences, but where other devotees of their music, like The Mole, have focused on their hypnotic aspects, Hammond attends more to their melodic side. Preferring loose rhythms to computer-aided quantisation, his music is often gloriously disjointed, but it never sounds messy: despite the murk surrounding individual sounds, the whole comes off as clean as a spring rain. In places, it sounds a lot like vintage Herbert - with its swirling keyboards and lugubrious electric bass, 'Who's To Say?' reminds me in particular of Herbert and Dani Siciliano's 1998 song 'So Now'.
Review by Philip Sherburne
