Fontan – Winterhwila [INFORMATION, 2009]

listen: Fontan
try: UF
Label: INFORMATION  
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tracklist:
1. Backustugu
2. …You Too
3. Early Morning
4. Neanderthaler
5. Land Of The Dragon
6. The Bridge
7. Neon Snakes
8. Nightrider

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From the same stable that brought you Studio and D. Lissvik comes another Balearic kraut-disco odyssey, this time from the production duo of Jesper Jarold and Jahin Melin, the former of whom was previously in a band with Studio’s Rasmus Hagg. After a semi-ambient opening sequence on ‘Backustugu’ layering meandering electric guitar leads and softened up synth textures, along comes the more pronouncedly funked up ‘… You Too’, which cruises along with Spandau Ballet basslines and slightly out of place slide guitar phrases, all set within a context of motorised discoid beats. Even better is ‘Early Morning’, whose dissolved vocals and rampant guitar soloing make for a classic case of something enormously cool arising from a convolution of several deeply uncool things. One for fans of cosmic-disco, prog and chart-bothering synth-funk alike, Winterhwila is a delight.