"The album, ‘Different Skin’ is varied enough that it never bores, never feels samey and flickers from genre to genre like a butterfly. Clearly there is a good deal of meaning behind these lyrics. Some of Maguire’s songs are almost story-like. Most notably ‘The Eagle and The Penguin’, which I’ll wager is mentioned in every Plum review. Don’t be put off by the animals in the title. This is no nursery rhyme. I’m reminded of Sol Seppys ‘Wonderland’ or ‘Enter One’. It’s that good...7.4/10". Brett Spaceman, [sic] Magazine, 2nd October 2009
“Different Skin” features Benbecula’s first female lead, one Shona Maguire. It was a wise choice. The music is an amalgam of string folk and eletro-glitch done to wonderful results. While not always my cup of tea, sporting a melancholy sort of romanticism, the production and engineering are undeniably spot-on. There’s a finely tuned balance between the two genres highlighted by angelic and ethereal vocals which carry the record through mostly superb songwriting. While those of us who prefer our sounds a little more to the gritty side, I find it hard to reject out of hound the profound beauty this music represents. Innovative meter composed of unorthodox means lend the overall effect and singular celestial quality. I can’t help but recommend this to people who have an unapologetic purple streak run through their sentimental veins". 6/10 — P. Somniferum (8 September, 2009), Foxy Digitalis
"Holly Golightly? Scottish loops’n’samples slinger
Plum is a 20-something electronic-based musician with her two
feet firmly planted in a zillion different camps. Plum has been
described as the female Fourtet, and with good reason: Combining
her naturalistic, gentle vocals and guitar with all manner of
sampled and live instruments, her EP The Whispering Chamber (
Summer Rain Recordings) matches the sound of coquettish
woodland nymphs with sampled electronic bits ricocheting off some
abandoned satellite. But beyond that natural/synthetic mold so
common to the music of Fourtet, Plum also recalls English
knob-twiddlers Laika, Lemon Jelly, and Plug. Give a listen, Plum
will set your head reeling, and your thoughts to daydreaming
mode" - Ken Micallef - Yahoo, 20th March 2008
(Better Living Through MP3)
"Loop machine genius"
The Scotsman, 13th February 2009
"Now whether or not you like fruit, you’re pretty much guaranteed to love Plum. With a quoted influences list as long and varied as a John Peel playlist, you can almost discount them all when listening to The Whispering Chamber EP (Summer Rain). With a heavy emphasis of sampling, there is an air of ghostliness throughout reminiscent of early CocoRosie, slip in the odd element of Four Tet and Lemon Jelly and you might be just about there. ‘Disjointed Mondays & If I Were a Bubble’ is sheer joy, and makes Plum an essential part of any fruit basket".
Jeremy Style, Bearded Magazine, summer 2008
"electronica, but it's dark with throbbing, looping vocal hooks underpinning breathy, haunting melodies" Mark Inchley, The Southern Reporter, March 2008
"A cross between music and magic" Gerry Farrell, The Leith Agency, December 2007
"Plum's quixotic music forces your mind into a state of eunoia, leaving your thoughts luxuriously unravelled" Mr Zed
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
Plum! Just to let you know I will be playing your fabulous music Tuesday on my show on www.HGRNJ.org between 12 noon and 3 pm Eastern Time ( 5-8 pm England or 6-9 pm Central Europe Time). I hope you can tune in, if you miss the show you can Check out my Playlist's Hope you like what you hear! Let me know what you think! cheers sher "Sher Delight"
We are glad to inform you that the new "Life's Decay - Dysrieuses" album has just been released ! You can listen to 3 mp3 from this release on our myspace page. You can visit www.lifesdecay.com for more info and/or order the album at www.abstraktsens.com
We hope that you will appreciate the new release ! Thank you for reading and for your support ! All the best.
A
4 track EP, titled Call Signs, it provides the perfect introduction to
the band prior to the release of their debut album, Grappling Hooks, in
early 2010.
Pending the new release "Melotonine" (release date coming soon), i decided to offer you a part of my best recent works in a free EP, "Cupboard Replacement", downloadable in all numeric formats with special graphic art works by Flint on Music AutOmatiK's Website :
We can stay in contact on facebook now... Thanks for your support !
Just to let you know I will be playing your wonderful music Tuesday on my show on www.HGRNJ.org between 12 noon and 3 pm Eastern Time ( 5-8 pm England or 6-9 pm Central Europe Time). I hope you can tune in, if you miss the show you can Check out my Playlist's
Hope you like what you hear! Let me know what you think!
The video is amazing in terms of visuals and audio. The song reminds me a teensy bit of the song "we" did. Mostly because it has your voice :), but also the darkness a little bit. I swear to God you're too awesome. Seems like things are really beginning to blow up for you.
I've actually been busy... in addition to fooling around with this digital music stuff, I also perform standup comedy and have been in a local sketch comedy group... so been doing a LOT of performing lately and not much musicking. Trying to get back on that. I've been playing around with sampling other people again.
We should do another track/comedy sketch soon. lol
Just to let you know I will be playing your lovely music Tuesday on my show on www.HGRNJ.org between 12 noon and 3 pm Eastern Time ( 5-8 pm England or 6-9 pm Central Europe Time). I hope you can tune in, if you miss the show you can Check out my Playlist's
Hope you like what you hear! Let me know what you think!
PlummyPlumPlum thankyou so much for the kind words. The new video for Unfaithful will be out Monday, although I'm extremely tempted to put it out today. Keep well!