If you watching TV, and pay a little bit attention to the ads, than you might herd abou Bibio, his track Lover's Carvings from Ambivalence Avenue album was really very popular by the Amazon advertisment for Kindle.
Released through Warp Records, Mind Bokeh is Wilkinson's sixth full length release if you include The Apple And The Tooth, a record largely comprised of remixes. Given the quality of Ambivalence Avenue, it’s safe to say this was quite comfortably one of my most anticipated album’s of the year, and possibly even the album to catapult him into the realms to mainstream success. If you was listening to a Ambivalence Avenue, you can realise, what a big job Bibio had to do, just to satisfy a listener.
Album opener Excuses was premiered on Pitchfork at the beginning of February. The track itself sees Wilkinson creating a fantastical glitch-pop atmosphere in which the song moodily treads up until the final minute where it kicks into life, in resplendent style. There’s arguably more variation on Mind Bokeh than his previous records, the soulful Pretentious leads into a heavily sidechained Anything New, featuring a Dilla influenced beat. Elsewhere there’s the rock heavy Take Off Your Shirt, that sounds like it could have slipped off the end of a Phoenix album, yet ends up sounding anything but convincing.
The strongest tracks are where Bibio keeps to his electro roots, such as the atmospheric title track and the two minute blinder that is Feminine Eye. However, you can’t help but feel that it lacks the beauty often found in Bibio’s music; there’s nothing that even comes close to the hollow perfections of Fire Ant from Ambivalence Avenue.
So if you are just a random listener you have to download "Mind Bokeh", Im sure you will enjoy it, but I can't promise the same thing for a " Ambivalence Avenue" fans, "Mind Bokeh" is completely different, in one side it is really good, we can see, that Bibio is trying to find his own sound, and he is not afraid to do it, but in the other hand, a lot of people were expecting a typical Bibio's folkotronic album for a summer, and I'm not sure, that "Mind Bokeh" is a super compensation. I estimate Mind Bokeh for 7 out of 10, because it is really dope album, but I was expecting something else.
Bibio-Excuses by ignatgoossens
