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"About 4-5 months ago I got completely obsessed by the last Library Tapes CD on Resonant. It absolutely blew me away.... at the time I thought it was nice enough but one day it just punched me in the face. So this new CD on Make Mine Music was practically enough to take me over the edge of excitement. This is beautiful stuff!! It's pretty much just piano and field recordings. Some of the field recordings are pretty far out there but they're punctuated by this gorgeous piano which takes you to a different plateau of sheer fantastic-ness. This is absolute genius and if you're a fan of Sylvain Chauveau, David Sylvian, Max Richter etc I can see no reason why you wouldn't want to be listening to this fantastic thing right now. It also reminds me of the last Fennesz/ Sakamoto collab (Cendre) what with all the crackles and hiss and the piano tinkling. Though it's considerably less well produced (i.e more bedroom produced) and considerably more sombre..." www.normanrecords.com

"With the release of Hostluft, Library Tapes appear to have discovered a whole new side to their melancholy work. Admittedly they always had an abstract, incredibly atmospheric way with pianos and field recordings, but here they seem to have structured them in a more classical way which, at times, is certainly remiscent of Max Richter but manages to keep to the lo-fi sensibilities that I really love about their sound. For those that love piano music this is really a must and for fans of good, beautiful music it's really something for you to listen to and thoroughly enjoy. Truly gorgeous.." www.smallfish.co.uk

"Library Tapes, the fitting pseudonym of Swedish feller David Wenngren, has over his last two albums crafted a distinctive sound that's won him a sizeable and dedicated audience. Although he's lost the able talents of previous member Per Jardsall, he still manages to craft a record which will no doubt please his followers. Once again we return to the sounds of aged creaking and clicking piano keys, recorded to tape or set against crackling, hissing field recordings to give the illusion of age, the illusion that you're hearing something that was discovered deep in a forgotten basement somewhere. It might sound rather clichd now with solo piano recordings coming like machinegun fire, but Wenngren has a distinctive touch taking influence from Erik Satie, Goldmund and William Basinski ('Melancholia' to be exact...) and then re-casting the pieces to make them totally his own. In fact the crumbling background noise which is so apparent in his works becomes just as important to the tracks as the piano, and the more you get absorbed into this fizzing and hissing the more you see what Wenngren is attempting to achieve. What he has done with 'Hostluft' is create a small window into another world, a short story or a discarded film reel, and for the duration (a meagre 34 minutes) you are transported there absolutely. Lovely stuff." www.boomkat.com

6 out of 6 gefle dagblad
9 out of 10 foxy digitalis
7,5 out of 10 www.ondarock.it
4 out of 5 kniveparty
3,5 out of 5 www.digg.be
rated b at stylus magazine

Available now from:
www.makeminemailorder.com
www.boomkat.com
www.darla.com
www.smallfish.co.uk
www.piccadillyrecords.com
www.normanrecords.com