Orange, by CS + Kreme

Orange

by CS + Kreme

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Dano Williams Would You Like A Vampire is such a sick track Favorite track: Would You Like A Vampire (feat. Bridget St John).

Awad the groove is all inky & seductive, undeniable magic happening here Favorite track: Would You Like A Vampire (feat. Bridget St John).

𝕋𝕨𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕤𝕠𝕦𝕝 Welcome to one of the very best albums created in 2022! I highly recommend sitting down and giving yourself the time to be absorbed by this album. Favorite track: Storm Rips Banana Tree.

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Beavis from Beavis and Butthead A fantastic album. I would encourage anyone to grab the vinyl - beautifully presented with gorgeous artwork and design - really captures the music!

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1.	Bassline 06:26	buy track
2.	Shred 08:31	buy track
3.	Voice Of The Spider 09:04	buy track
4.	Pink Mist 06:49	buy track
5.	Mandarin 02:29	buy track
6.	Would You Like A Vampire (feat. Bridget St John) 08:03	buy track
7.	Storm Rips Banana Tree 19:54	buy track

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Snoopy is hard to follow up. The same brilliant musicality is lavished on Orange — a combination of unmistakably original, skittering drum programming, startlingly fresh instrumental interjections, creepily invocatory voices, and dubwise treatments — giddily imbued with the dark arts of ritual and seance. But Orange is more gripping, focussed and urgent, more intense and ambitious. Next level.

Its first quarter presents a trio of forays in suspense.
Bassline squares up like an epic psych-funk grinder, with a moody guitar line traversed by ticking drum patterns and faint electric crackle. In no time the guitar is staggering and stammering under the duress of echo and distortion, and over-run with percussive electronics and the first of the voices massing in the music’s head. The mood has quickly become more trepidatious. We're deeper underground; it’s gloomier, wetter.
Shred propulsively ratchets up the tension and menace. Glazily tentative xylophone is played against slashing, nervy cello. The voices are more strangulated and sick now. Flutes and chimes evoke the same kind of beautiful, contaminated efflorescence which is pictured on the LP’s front cover.
Voice Of The Spider makes easier progress across this cavernous, shadowy, dripping terrain, with funky pads and Nasty, eighties, No Wave electric bass; woozy chimes, non-plussed keys, singing-in-tongues.

Pink Mist marks an arrival, or unbottling, with annunciatory church-organ and choral voices from the off, and a newly relaxed, head-nodding kosmische rhythm.

Mandarin is a short, beat-less and voice-free interlude for piano and bass. It's reflective and nostalgic, ambivalent and inconclusive, with a lovely snatch of melody. A bridge half-way.

Would You Like A Vampire is a triumphant, mesmerizing go at New Folk, with strummed acoustic guitar, descant song, and jazzily restless drum programming (including a tasty bass-bin trembler). Amazingly, Conrad Standish is joined at the mic by none other than Bridget St John. Together they sing 'Earth is Paradise’ so repeatedly and tremulously — and the song is cut off so abruptly at the end — it seems as if the verb is teetering on the past tense, and hymn fading into valediction and catastrophe.

Similarly Storm Rips Banana Tree begins idyllically enough, with a CS-&-Kreme-style raga… before something like an immense, obliterative drill starts up. Harpsichord and organ — by James Rushford — and flutes, and clapping, distant chanting and insectile percussion steadily leaven the dread, till finally all that is left is lapping water.
It’s an epic, deeply immersive, compelling, thought-provoking, twenty-minute finale… the coup de grâce.

credits

released November 4, 2022

Written and produced by CS + Kreme
Bass, drum programming, nylon string guitar, vocals - Conrad Standish
Keyboards, electronics - Sam Karmel
Vocals on Would You Like A Vampire - Bridget St John
Portative organ, Wurlitzer and harpsichord on Storm Rips Banana Tree - James Rushford

Mastered and cut by Noel Summerville

Photography and design by Will Bankhead

Poster photo collage by Kit MacArthur

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