Surely the most ambitious of her three Neotropic LPs, La Prochaine Fois is a double-disc project including the soundtrack on one CD and the film ("an ambient road movie") on the other. The opener "Sunflower Girl" is an evocative beginning, matching a plucked-bass solo to faraway harmonica and ambient noise. Former Verve guitarist Nick McCabe lends his talents to a pair of tracks, the first ("Cornershop Candy") an ominous, old-world production with vocals from Jarboe, the second ("Train to Katoomba") a hazy production reminiscent of the Doors. Other collaborators include the slowcore heroes Low and, on a rare breakbeat production, MC Shorti. Elsewhere, Maslen flaunts her influences from the classic 4AD sound with a rush of wintry, atmospheric productions melding digital percussion with evocative guitar textures. Definitely not what her Ninja Tune (or even Ntone) fans would expect from a Neotropic LP, but the cinematic focus to these productions makes for a solid work of exploratory electronica.
La Prochaine Fois
Neotropic
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La Prochaine Fois Review
by John Bush
Track Listing
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2 | Neotropic | 03:51 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
3 | Neotropic | 03:27 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
4 | Neotropic | 04:30 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
5 | Neotropic | 02:17 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
6 | Neotropic | 04:30 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
7 | Neotropic | 03:58 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
8 | Neotropic | 02:34 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
9 | Neotropic | 04:59 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
10 | Neotropic | 03:16 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
11 | Neotropic | 04:53 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
12 | Neotropic | 03:16 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
13 | Neotropic | 05:08 | SpotifyAmazon |