proem - socially inept review from www.cdbaby.com From the first surreal track, these musical ideas find a way to penetrate the busy mind and speak in a language only the subconscious comprehends. With a sound that is primitive, ancient, familiar and visceral as well as futuristic and timeless, Proem's music is no longer processed as vibrations to the ear drum but rather, dancing colors and moody landscapes to the imagination, like a lazer show inside your head. This is the result of downtempo and experimental electronic reaching into the realms of art. Gorgeous, rich, insanely creative, sensuous and lush expanses that lead with the gut. proem - socially inept review from www.loop.cl Richard Bailey, aka Proem publishes his second full-length album and fourth in total on Miami's fine Merck imprint. "Socially Inept" it has that sound in the likes of DIN, Neon Guija or Warp imprints, is to say that electronic music whose reference is intelligent techno nowadays called IDM. But Bailey really iputs important melody doses throughout all the album. "Bites to their tongue" it has disquieting keyboard lines somewhat acute and tried to draw a picture with a nostalgic landscape. Quirky digital nises on placid ambient are developed on "Invisible for all". Pieces of electro are what is listened to on "Little A", with deep basslines, in as much percussions with metallic borders they show on "Pinching point". But without a doubt the ambient piece par excellence is "Place gun to head" with those mantles of symphonic keyboards that cover all this track giving it an epic character without equal. Brilliant! Nice vocoder voices are the structure song on "When frailty fails" and again the keyboards with analogical spyings are marking the melodic development on "Out of phase". "Da.vironment" burst through Boards Of Canada' pastoral techno full of spirals and echoes. An hesitanting hip-hop rhythm on "Carpark kitten" are interrupted by a voice processed by vocoder and soon crystalline guitars give form to "Deep like airline failure". Finally the track that gives title to this album develops on lethargic hip-hop loaded with harmonic keyboards. Texto Guillermo Escudero proem - socially inept review in french from trax magazine #78 Proem aime la musique de ses confrères anciennement basés à Sheffield, mais aussi la trance des balbutiements des années 90. Entre clic and cuts d'une électronica sans date et volutes pianotées sur une TB303, " Socially inept " s'organise comme un maxi de détente voué au réveil de l'âge d'or.. On y croise les anciens de B12 et les projets parallèles de Black Dog, on se remémore le split single de The Orb avec Mike Oldfield... -Laurent Guérel

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