Minotaur Shock Maritime
Four Tet and Caribou (née Manitoba) may have forsaken acoustica to make engaging odes to […]
Four Tet and Caribou (née Manitoba) may have forsaken acoustica to make engaging odes to freakbeat percussion, but Bristol‘s David “Minotaur Shock” Edwards still wields a jaunty calliope of a laptop as a lasting cornerstone of the folktronica movement. Indeed, fans of whimsical, warbling melodies will find Maritime is plenty shipshape. Beats peck, shuffle, and skip; synths roll, shimmer, and flutter. Is that timpani? A vibraphone? Clarinet? A seagull‘s caw? Certain tracks, with their soft focus instrumentation, even seem to have a Trevor Horn touch to them, balanced out by some Moroder oscillations-and all of it set adrift on memory bliss.