Jumpel "Deuxieme Bureau" – Drum Media

Excerpt: “[Jumpel] has not lost the intimacy that a minimalist attitude often affords… Jumpel’s delicate piano motifs mesh seamlessly with his fuzzed-out electronic hi-hits, pizzicato strings and tones of marimba. There are no fancy-pants-allegro...

Sankt Otten "Eine Kleine Traurigkeit" – PopMatters

Excerpt: “while Portishead mk. 1 cut up old James Bond/funk samples and the like in a hip-hop fashion, much of Sankt Otten’s 1999 debut sounds as if they’re sampling the same sort of stuff Pulp was channelling on This Is Hardcore, and more power to them for...