Moomin - The Story About You
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Moomin - The Story About You
Holdrons Arcade
135A Rye Lane
Unit 11 Holdrons Arcade
London SE15 4ST
United Kingdom
Label: Smallville Records – SMALLVILLE CD04
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: Oct 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Deep House
Moomin's debut album on Smallville is an exercise in subtlety and poise — ten tracks that eke warmth from relatively spare compositions, offering a compelling example of deep house at its most hypnotic and emotionally precise. Sebastian Genz has always been a regular of the Hamburg imprint, and The Story About You captures him at the moment of full arrival: stripped drumwork underpinning simple melodies that shift and evolve subtly over time, no breakdowns, drops or drama, just the unhurried evocation of feeling that tastes all the richer for its slow gestation.
There is a softness to the tracks that is wonderfully inviting — as suitable on a snowy walk as on a sun-drenched beach. Opener Doobiest beckons the listener to relaxation with the sounds of waves and gulls before the record settles into its own deeply mesmerising rhythm. The short melodies Genz loops are expertly chosen, backed by a surprisingly detailed percussive field that rewards careful listening — the mournful humming that rises above the title track's languid keys, the perfect horn calling out melancholically into Valentine's heartache slow jam, the bone-dry percussion of highlight Watermelon threatening to punch through the speakers. What stays with the listener is Genz's unerring ability to eke so much emotional effect from largely unchanging melodics — a razor-sharp knack for picking the perfect loop, rendering each fractional alteration a near-eureka moment. One of the most quietly essential debut albums in the Smallville catalogue.
