Clark - Totems Flare

There is musicianship at work - Chris uses guitar, drums and piano, albeit unrecognisably heavily processed, and his programming is virtuosic - but there is no noodling here, nor is there any sense that this is music only for the cognoscenti. As Chris says "the ridiculous brute force of modern pop engineering is definitely not something I've ever shied away from" - and that is the context in which this album needs to be heard.

This refusal to be more-underground-than-thou, and the willingness to take influence from anywhere and reach out to anyone, can be traced back to Chris's first experiences in music. "I've had issues with people who insist on being in one music 'gang' since school", he says; "It always just seemed like ignorance to me, like a misguided contempt for other things just for the sake of fitting in. I ended up having about four groups of friends because I liked Seattle grunge type music, I liked acid and electronics, I liked hip hop, I liked all sorts and I wasn't going to separate out one that was 'my thing'."
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