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Yello: The Eye

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Label: Motor Music
Released: 2003.12.09
Time:
 60:53
Category: Synthpop
Producer(s): Yello
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.yello.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Planet Dada (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:08
[2] Nervous (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 2:53
[3] Don Turbulento (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 4:51
[4] Soul On Ice (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:12
[5] Junior B (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 4:05
[6] Tiger Dust (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 5:01
[7] Distant Solution (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 4:43
[8] Hipster's Delay (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 4:38
[9] Time Palace (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 4:19
[10] Indigo Bay (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 5:50
[11] Unreal (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 4:02
[12] Bougainville (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:54
[13] Star Breath (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 5:18
[14] Planet Dada [Flamboyant] (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 4:40

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Boris Blank - Electronics, Arrangements, Engineer, Remix on [14], Producer
Dieter Meier - Vocals, Producer

Jade Davies - Vocals on [3,5,7,9,11]
Pogo - Additional Bass on [5]
Monks From The Gyuto Monastry - Chant Overtone Voice on [13]
The Bombila - Chant Overtone Voice on [13]

Håkan Lidbo - Co-Producer on [1]
Hubertus von Hohenlohe - Co-Producer on [3,5,7,9,11]
Ian Pooley - Mixing on [3,7]
Aukufen - Remix on [14]
Christoph Stickel - Mastering
Martin Wanner - Cover Design
Beat Pfändler - Photography

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When Swiss experimental duo Yello first broke onto the scene in the early '80s, their brand of adventurous but danceable pop music was pretty unique; most experimental music wasn't quite so accessible, and most music considered "dance" music wasn't quite so...odd. In the 23 years between that first album and 2003's The Eye, it's no surprise that a lot has changed; unfortunately, Yello hasn't changed enough to stay ahead of the times, and consequently all of the electronic experimentalists who owed a debt to this innovative band have since shot far past, bringing far more bizarre sounds into the mainstream. Most of the material here is undeniably Yello, with keyboard-driven atmospheric backing and Dieter Meier's unmistakable (and occasionally oddball) vocals on top. It's a pleasantly familiar listen for those who grew up enjoying Stella and One Second's more mainstream numbers, but that's all it is: the band rarely dips into the more experimental aspects of either of those earlier albums, and sonically there's very little here that couldn't have been done in those earlier days. The one real exception on The Eye is the opening cut, "Planet Dada," which adds a cut-up feel to the vocals even while keeping the music frustratingly familiar. The frustration is underscored all the more with the remixed version of "Planet Dada" that closes the album out; digital manipulator Akufen's chopped and spliced version of the track is a vast improvement on the original track, and far more in the spirit of early-'80s Yello than anything the band itself has done in nearly two decades

Sean Carruthers - All Music Guide



Initially dazzling, largely frustrating 11th from moustachioed Swiss electro duo

It’s an auspicious beginning: the stuttering digital exotica of “Planet Dada” is the most thrilling few minutes of tech-noir since Orbital’s “The Box”, “Trans-Europe Express” remixed by Martin Denny. Elsewhere, as with the recent Kraftwerk album, there’s a feeling the passage of time finds former innovators treading water. There are some great titles, of course (“Don Turbulento”; “Bougainville”; “Soul On Ice”, in particular, cries out for the peacock strut/purple yearning of Billy Mackenzie). In comparison with what passes for mainstream contemporary dance music, this is both wittier and sexier. But by Yello’s own standards, most of The Eye is either simply too familiar or crushingly limp. Several tracks rehash Dieter Meier’s growling vocal riff from their biggest hit, “The Race”, and the once radical fusion of machine music with more fluid, ethnic forms (bossa nova, largely) now sounds cute but pat. Worse, the occasional appearance of a bloodless, not-quite-soul female vocal makes the need for a more characterful collaborator even more obvious. If you’re new to Yello, start with “The New Mix In One Go”.

Uncut - December 1, 2003
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