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Part industrial nightmare merchant, part gothic balladeer, Ireland’s Partial Retile makes a deliciously dark noise. But there are many shades of gloom as the Drogheda soundscaper offers up a textured, affecting journey across the seven tracks here, plus a couple of bonus numbers. Some of it’s instrumental, some of it’s not, but it all points to a glamorously decayed vision.
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From the opposite end of the music spectrum come Partial Reptile, mainly the work of S. Gavin and his / their album of Industrial Lullabies came with a crayon, which could come in handy. Some day. The instrumental 'The Butterfly Killers' takes the electronic bleeping of the genre, and drowns it in a toxic noise dump. 'Isolation in Pain' adds a breathy spoken vocal to the noise of relentless machinery conjuring up the film Metropolis, while 'Wound, co-written by the inestimable SJ McArdle, mixes a proper tune with sinister sounds. Partial Reptile has / have a greater sense of musical rebellion in one track than most indie bands can muster in a career. You won't hear much or any of this on the radio, so you better filch it off their website.
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With all the quiet, understated and low-key fury of an invisible bulldozer, Ireland’s Partial Reptile does icy ambient at its most disturbing. Hailing from the east of the country, this one-man soundscapist combines minimal percussion and barely audible vocals on this, his latest 45. There’s fear and beauty aplenty over the space of its four or so minutes.
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Overplay also interviewed Partial Reptile around this time - read it
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