Cursor Miner / Explosive Piece Of Mind

Lo Recordings

formats available

CD
$9.50
LCD 29
666017034621
Street Date:
August 27th, 2002
Ship Date:
August 19th, 2002
LP
$9.75
LLP 29
666017034614
Street Date:
August 27th, 2002
Ship Date:
August 19th, 2002

‘Electro Syd Barrett meets Aphex Twin meets Gary Numan with a touch of early Eno and a nod to Beck’ Uncut Cursor Miner is one of those people who never quite traded in their starry-eyed optimism for cold, hard cynicism. Or lost his fancy for philosophical musings about the possibilities of quantum physics, the likelihood of ever relocating to outer space or being well up for replacing his body parts with supertechnology. Maybe it’s naive, but, well, fuck it. People scoffed about putting man on the moon, too, and now look where we are, eh? His debut album Explosive Piece Of Mind imagines a vision of the future where the world flourishes in a techno utopia; a place where science uses its powers for good instead of evil. He’s a denizen of the fantasyland where we don’t actually destroy the earth, we make it a better place. His music is equally ambitious: pop with an edge, that dares to both fuck with you and be irresistibly catchy at the same time – a proper electronic pop album with harmonies, razor sharp lyrics, songs, hooks and all those things you thought the laptop generation had left behind. And twisted, like if Lewis Carroll tale wrote lyrics for Gary Numan or Squarepusher. Curioser and curioser. Some previous thoughts on Cursor Miner: “acid-addled Syd Barrett dropping the guitar for the pleasures of the broken beatbox” 8/10 Ministry “Old skool arcade game knees up” 4/5 IDJ “A definite taste of Gescom tag-team wrestling!” Andy Weatherall 1. Scrapma 2. Never Been Seen 3. Bodily Functions 4. Like DNA 5. Dragon Drop 6. Remote Control 7. Alphawaves 8. U Want To Want 9. Bezerk One 10. Salt Solution 11. Battery Powered Joy 12. Propaganda 13. Brown Study