Reviews

Tomorrows Tuesday (NH024)

  • every day I die for your body
  • lake song
  • last deep breath
  • as the crow flies
  • terminal individuality
  • waterline
  • borrowed time
  • prelude
  • sweet smell of cloves
  • 3:33 AM
  • without you I would have no one to leave
  • floating in formaldehyde
  • waiting for the penny to drop
  • tomorrows tuesday

Released March 2002 on Neu Harmony

Review by Andy Garibaldi

"This is an album of melodies like ice cream; they feel so wonderful, ultimately disappear leaving you with just the memory of what was, and the earnest desire to experience it all again at the first available opportunity. With swathes and layers of flowing, sliding, gliding synths, soaring leads, a solid drumming foundation, deep synth bass and more musical ideas than the Euro-mainlanders have over a dozen albums, this is a staggering achievement and one that is a signpost in how to produce a commercial set of synth music tracks without ever conforming to clichŽ or meandering from its chosen path. It's original, has its roots in the most unlikely areas, features mellotron sounds, synths, percussives and is one of the finest UK synth albums around to day - an essential purchase."

Review by John M Peters, theborderland.com

"The Glimmer Room is fundamentally composer/musician Andy C, helped on various tracks by collaborators. The fourteen track album opens with Every Day I Die For Your Body, which sounds like one of Gary Numan's old titles but is quite a funky, bass-heavy tune with looped vocal chorus. I rather liked this track, it has a brooding grandeur that works very well at setting an atmosphesre. Lake Song continues in the same vein: heavy bass synth lines with a glass piano-style melody over the top - not quite as good as the first track. Last Deep Breath begins with what sounds like a sample of a boy laughing, around which is framed low key melody that loops and slowly shifts. As The Crow Flies begins with a near-shuffle beat from the rhythm boxes, while the tune drifts along nicely. Terminal Individuality follows, synthesized birdsong over a slow beat and echo-drenched lead lines - quite a reflective feel to this tune, one of the best on the album. Waterline is next, a more upbeat track than the previous one, though not by much - once again Andy C shows a talent for putting together low-key funky rhythm tracks to melody lines that are both harmonious and infectious. And this is pretty much the way of things throughout the rest of the album - the tempos are always less than the over-frenetic cacophony you get in contemporary dance music, yet they always keep the music pushing along, while the synths and sequencers provide memorable tune after memorable tune. This album is more upbeat than many on Neu Harmony and deserves to be a success."