Reviews for "Seventeen EP"

Hi everyone,
A couple of reviews here and there - I'll post them up here (if and) when they ever get published...
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LPX
"Seventeen EP"
LPX, or Leigh O'Gorman to the tax-man, is one of those musicians who steadily plug away at their craft over a number of years, not really knowing - and perhaps not really caring - whether anyone is actually paying attention to them. The ambient-electro purveyor (a Kildare native, currently based in the UK) has been a fixture on the Dublin scene since before his debut release Easy Music For Difficult Ears in 2006, and considering his lack of mainstream success, one imagines that his career is fueled solely by a love of creating soundscapes. It's something he does adeptly, too, if his latest EP Seventeen is anything to go by; a collection of five inventive and agile instrumental tracks spanning 25 minutes, O'Gorman scores a coup with the sinister Jake's Lament, the demonically-possessed-Lemon Jelly-style bitterness of Now Put Your Feet Up and Relax.., and the twinkling, informal shuffle of Dementia In Space and Time. Though it's occasionally a tad sharp on the eardrums, Seventeen showcases an artist who may not be completely groundbreaking in his approach, but who is making music that's an unmitigated pleasure to partake in.
3 out of 5

© 2008 Lauren Murphy, Entertainment.ie (February 2008)
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Newbridge native Leigh O'Gorman, who works under the name LPX, has released his latest EP and if you're a fan of melodic electronica then you'll love "Seventeen". The EP opens with the piano based title track which is an extended cut from the mini-album, "Experiments in Dub and HiFi" that was released last year.

LPX often draws comparisons from the like sof Fout-Tet, who trade in similarly organic electronic sounds, but there's far more to him than that. The five tracks on the EP are prime slices of lush electronica with an edge of dub - atmospheric, at times dark and menacing, at times soaring and energising.

The final track on the EP, "When the Gods Punish Me...", is over eleven minutes long and sounds like a fall from heaven to hell, as beautiful swooping strings descend into minimalistic, almost industrial resonance, which was created using sampled percussive sounds.

This is really beuatiful stuff, so support a local artist and purchase "Seventeen" from RoadRecs.com for just €4.99. And while you're at it, "Experiments in Dub and HiFi" is available as free download from http://www.alphabetset.net/ so you've no excuse for not getting a hold of this fabulous album either.

© 2008 Aoife Barry, Kildare Nationalist (January 2008)
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I posted this the other day but for some reason the MP3 information got lost on the way to the hype machine so I’m putting it up again in a shameless attempt to get more people to listen to it.
The fact that it sounds like Four-Tet jamming with a Glockenspiel wielding Patrick Moore should be recommendation enough.
Music Like Dirt (February 2008)
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LPX is Irish based electronic artist Leigh O'Gorman and he has previously released under the name lube: Project_X. This is his third collection of mellow electronic sounds on the Electric Fix label and features five slices of subtle dubby electronic sounds.

The album features four [five] short little pieces of lush electronica comparable at times to the likes of Four-Tet along a longer closing track which uses a selection of sampled percussive sounds to create something almost resembling early industrial music meets the minimalism of Steve Reich. Top notch stuff yet again from LPX.
It can be picked up from here.
© 2008 RoadRecs.com (Road Records - January 2008)
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I dream of a night that might feel like this song sounds. It makes me want to sit in the backseats of cars, paying no attention, going nowhere, and looking forward to getting there.
It pushes along in its city way, dirty old town, casting itself in a lead role of a small scale epic: not that this song is all style, it's more than that, it's a feeling, like the title track of Kid A with fully grown legs, jazz put through tapped out electronica. LPX makes fine music from these things, you can download his record here if you like. You should.
© 2007 The Torture Garden Blog (September 2007)
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- Leigh