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Patrick Kelleher - You Look Cold

Review by Simon Jay Catling

To be honest, the minimum I expect of an album these days is to include use of at least three types of condiment containers; Patri»

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patrick kellehers music varies from brooding, tense electronica to jaunty acoustica to 8-bit dance-floor ditties to evocative, experimental pop but always with a twist of something ethereal or idiosyncratic. relatively simple vocal melodies come swathed in distant hums and cracks. his songs are often premised on a mixture of live instrumentation, drum machines, cheapo voice-sampling yamaha keyboards and vocals that are, at times, heavily distorted. kelleher has been championed by bbc radio 6's stuart maconie and has supported david kitt and ariel pink's haunted graffitti to name a few. he will be playing at this years castle palooza festival. on his debut album 'you look cold' his songs demonstrate a restless imagination that flits between diverse reference points. there are the emotionally charged pieces such as 'coat to wear' & 'wintertime's doll', the strangely euphoric whoops & hand claps of 'finds you', the relentless psychedelic electro of 'he has to sleep sometime' & the woozy dreamlike hiss of 'wonder'.
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