Khoiba - Nice Traps
Khoiba
Nice Traps
2005 Streetbeat
Saw this for quite some time sitting in the cut out bin (along with the previously reviewed Rodney Hunter plate), and finally acquired it. It ain't too shabby.
Not great. But it will likely grow on me. It is not what I expected from a band coming out of the Czech Republic. The album feels very English, for lack of a better way of putting it.
At times reminding me of a less ambitious Colfinger, or a less ambient Olive, the group (a quartet) is not without its charms. It is electronica, but has organic bits in generally appropriate places. Ema Brabcova has a kind of shoegazy laziness to her vocals. An almost nonplussed girlyness that works well to keep the varying backdrops under one sonic roof.
It is not a must have, but at $2.95, it was a steal.
Nice Traps
2005 Streetbeat
Saw this for quite some time sitting in the cut out bin (along with the previously reviewed Rodney Hunter plate), and finally acquired it. It ain't too shabby.
Not great. But it will likely grow on me. It is not what I expected from a band coming out of the Czech Republic. The album feels very English, for lack of a better way of putting it.
At times reminding me of a less ambitious Colfinger, or a less ambient Olive, the group (a quartet) is not without its charms. It is electronica, but has organic bits in generally appropriate places. Ema Brabcova has a kind of shoegazy laziness to her vocals. An almost nonplussed girlyness that works well to keep the varying backdrops under one sonic roof.
It is not a must have, but at $2.95, it was a steal.
