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Thomas White - The Maximalist

Review by Patrick Smith

It may be callous to castigate a songwriter for forgetting to inject any melody into his songs. But the overall product here doesn't nearly match the vaulted ambition or the doubtless musical talents of their author.»

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thomas white - electric soft parade, brakes and occasional member of sparks to name a few - is releasing his latest solo album 'the maximalist' via cooking vinyl. 'the maximalist' features 12 tracks of bizarre post-modern pop music. played, recorded and mixed by thomas himself, the lp was recorded in glasgow's chem 19. the album is perhaps his most complex to date - lyrically astute, musically subtle, yet at times brash, over-emotional and discordant with influences shifting from 70's soft-rockers chicago to modern electronic pioneers broadcast, 'the maximalist' fuses in a most accomplished way everything that has inspired thomas over the years. yet another fascinating progression for this most idiosyncratic of artists.
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