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Junica is a strong debut for New Zealand-based guitar/laptop duo, Over The Atlantic. Knee-tapping electronic beats accompany affable melodies of youthful love, breaking-up, and reuniting. Clean guitars cut to messy distortion and abet a neo-nineties English flavor that permeates the album.
Computer percussion is no replacement for a human (and it’s not supposed to be), but, at times, the blips, clicks, and electric snare can’t support moments of high intensity. Dynamics suffer at the limits of a laptop: when crashing guitars burst into “Glass Breaks”, for instance, the percussion remains relatively static (perhaps decidedly off-balanced). These moments of restricted intentions, however, are few and far between.
The album’s packed with melodic gems, such as “Heart Land”, as well as instances of fresh innovation, such as the growling, scathing guitar-work in “France.” Overall,
Junica’s a great start, fit for fans of Postal Service and the like.
Nice laptop love to complement the broken-hearteds’ online soul-mate searches.
Erik Virtanen
Events
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Fri, 12 Dec 2008
So So Modern & Over The Atlantic
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So So Modern, Over The Atlantic
at The Tug Boat, Wellington New Zealand
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Mon, 29 Dec 2008
Rhythm & Vines at Waiohika Estate
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The Kooks, Franz Ferdinand, Cut Copy, Public Enemy, Digitalism, Late of the Pier, Mystery Jets, Santogold, Jamie Lidell, DJ Mehdi, The Datsuns, Carl Cox, Busy P, Concord Dawn, Adam Freeland, Ladyhawke, Aquasky, The Ruby Suns, State of Mind, Recloose, Cut Off Your Hands, A-Trak, Liam Finn, Antix, Shihad, Jade, The Black Seeds, Fort Knox Five, DJ Nu-Mark, Kora, Die! Die! Die!, Katchafire, So So Modern, Magik Johnson, Anika Moa, Fur Patrol, SJD, Ajax, Over The Atlantic, Module, Motocade, Trei, Blackbird, Public Access, Ben Davis, The Tutts, Honey Claws, P Money, Antiform, The Enright House, Disasteradio, Unity Pacific, Bang! Bang! Eche!, Emerson Todd, Batrider, Anna Coddington, The Missing Link, Little Bushman, The Coshercot Honeys, Secret Knives, Tim Richards, Elm, House Of Shem, Soane, DJ Switch, An Emerald City, Olmecha Supreme, R.I.A., Disco not Disco, The Pheonix Foundation, Sean Murray, Beat Mafia, Lydia Cole, Connan Mockasin, Sampology, Electric Wire Hustle, Cool Kids club, Clap Clap Riot, Jonny Love, Beat Company, Anna Macdonald, Ben Throp, Dj Audit, Dylan C, Richard Alexander, The Constituents, South rakas crew, Alex Bull, Dj hat, Gavin S, Blvd Nights, Brazil Beat Soundsystem, Lady 6, Nervous Surgeons, Trash Disco, Vinyl Slingers, DEAN CAMPBELL, Tim Livingston, Toby Burrows, 1, The Naked! and Famous, Daniel Farley, DJ Lotion, 38:40 DJ Collective, Welly Players Club, Dj Substance feat. MC Homebrew, Mat Randomplay, P Vans & Steppa D, Acoustic Assassin, Ollus, Jonas Te aho, Lewis Mearns, Exile and JFG
at Waiohika Estate, Gisborne New Zealand
