Waskerley Way: “True Damage”.
September 26, 2011, 1 comments
Clearly his most ambitious work to date, Newcastle’s Michael Bridgewater aka Waskerley Way‘s new EP La Magie Rouge is a lesson in world music afflatus gone fuzz pop, and this is not to be understood as a disparaging judgment. Bridgewater took “damaged and doctored sounds” from places as far-off as Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia and, well, Belgium, subsequently working them into carefully arranged dream pop songs situated somewhere between original glo-fi and shoegaze. With the dazzling tune “True Damage” the method turns out most successful – that is, if you are able to overcome those unsettling yet of course unjustified “Desert Rose” associations that are induced by the clarinet-like (it’s probably a different instrument) sample toward the song’s end.
La Magie Rouge is available on cassette via Ultra Friends and digitally for pay-what-you-want on bandcamp.
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