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Mixing buoyant basslines, a stellar midnight-at-the-club vibe and the overall attack of a studied live dance band, Ibibio Sound Machine's Pull the Rope sounds tailor made for that bewitching moment on the dancefloor just after the sweat starts getting in your eyes, you're feeling winded and thinking maybe it's time to bail. Then a jam like "Far Away" hits the system and, with its urgent, pointed Africa '70-inspired horn riffs and spiraling polyrhythms, generates an adrenaline-and-dopamine bump that hits your pleasure center. At that moment, the night begins steering toward a much wilder, yet-unknown conclusion.
The band credits this fifth-album energy shift in part to Sheffield-based producer Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, M.I.A.), who worked in the studio with the Sound Machine's Eno Williams and Max Grunhard for two weeks while nudging them to rethink how they generated ideas and built songs. The continent-jumping "Got to Be Who U Are" mixes a futuristic spin on Williams' roots in the Ibibio region of Nigeria and with layers informed by Grunhard's academy-trained background in Australia. "Political Incorrect" opens with a Sly & the Family Stone-style beat before settling into a slow-disco banger that wouldn't sound out of place on an early Hercules and Love Affair set list. The Gang of Four-esque bassline underpinning "Fire" rolls like a perpetual motion machine, one augmented with squiggly pew-pew sounds of early '90s rave and interrupted by a mid-track diversion that, like the evolution of Ibibio Sound System itself, gradually develops a whole new rhythm. © Randall Roberts/Qobuz
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Ross Orton, Producer - Max Grunhard, Producer - Downtown Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Ibibio Sound Machine, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist
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Ross Orton, Producer - Max Grunhard, Producer - Downtown Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Ibibio Sound Machine, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist
2024 Merge Records 2024 Merge Records
Ross Orton, Producer - Max Grunhard, Producer - Downtown Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Ibibio Sound Machine, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist - Magnus Mehta, Composer
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Ross Orton, Producer - Max Grunhard, Producer - Downtown Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Ibibio Sound Machine, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist
2024 Merge Records 2024 Merge Records
Ross Orton, Producer - Max Grunhard, Producer - Downtown Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Ibibio Sound Machine, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist - Peter Matson, Composer
2024 Merge Records 2024 Merge Records
Ross Orton, Producer - Max Grunhard, Producer - Downtown Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Ibibio Sound Machine, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist
2024 Merge Records 2024 Merge Records
Ross Orton, Producer - Max Grunhard, Producer - Downtown Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Ibibio Sound Machine, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist
2024 Merge Records 2024 Merge Records
Ross Orton, Producer - Max Grunhard, Producer - Downtown Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Ibibio Sound Machine, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist
2024 Merge Records 2024 Merge Records
Ross Orton, Producer - Max Grunhard, Producer - Downtown Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Ibibio Sound Machine, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist
2024 Merge Records 2024 Merge Records
Ross Orton, Producer - Max Grunhard, Producer - Downtown Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Ibibio Sound Machine, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist - Peter Matson, Composer
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Album review
Mixing buoyant basslines, a stellar midnight-at-the-club vibe and the overall attack of a studied live dance band, Ibibio Sound Machine's Pull the Rope sounds tailor made for that bewitching moment on the dancefloor just after the sweat starts getting in your eyes, you're feeling winded and thinking maybe it's time to bail. Then a jam like "Far Away" hits the system and, with its urgent, pointed Africa '70-inspired horn riffs and spiraling polyrhythms, generates an adrenaline-and-dopamine bump that hits your pleasure center. At that moment, the night begins steering toward a much wilder, yet-unknown conclusion.
The band credits this fifth-album energy shift in part to Sheffield-based producer Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, M.I.A.), who worked in the studio with the Sound Machine's Eno Williams and Max Grunhard for two weeks while nudging them to rethink how they generated ideas and built songs. The continent-jumping "Got to Be Who U Are" mixes a futuristic spin on Williams' roots in the Ibibio region of Nigeria and with layers informed by Grunhard's academy-trained background in Australia. "Political Incorrect" opens with a Sly & the Family Stone-style beat before settling into a slow-disco banger that wouldn't sound out of place on an early Hercules and Love Affair set list. The Gang of Four-esque bassline underpinning "Fire" rolls like a perpetual motion machine, one augmented with squiggly pew-pew sounds of early '90s rave and interrupted by a mid-track diversion that, like the evolution of Ibibio Sound System itself, gradually develops a whole new rhythm. © Randall Roberts/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:37:17
- Main artists: Ibibio Sound Machine
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Merge Records
- Genre: Electronic
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