Treader

by Spring Heel Jack

Overview

Perhaps realizing that jungle was not just growing uncool but turning into a creative dead-end, Coxon and Wales toned down the heavy breakbeats and unrelenting drum'n'bass on their Treader album. Yes, it's still much more drum'n'bass than trip-hop or electronica, or anything else, but the inclusion of a few downtempo tracks ("Is," "More Stuff No One Saw") plus the frequent slants toward experimentalism (short bursts of noise) or classicism (chamber-quartet strings) show the pair moving discreetly away from the green pastures of their mid-'90s peak. "Winter" delves into jazz-fusion with a trumpet flourish straight out of Miles' darker years before adding a few paranoid effects characteristic of darkstep drum'n'bass. Treader is just as impeccably produced and crisp-sounding as Coxon and Wales' previous work (just check highlights like "Blackwater" and "Toledo"), but it has the definite sound of a transitional album. ~ John Bush

Product Details

Release Date:	03/21/2000
Label:	Thirsty Ear
UPC:	0700435708327
Rank:	180526

Tracks

1. Is
2. Winter
3. Blackwater
4. Treader
5. Eyepa
6. More Stuff No One Saw
7. Outerlude
8. Toledo
9. Pipe
10. 1st Piece for la Monte Young
11. My Favorite Things
12. Climb Ev'ry Mountain

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Spring Heel Jack   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Mads Bjerke   Engineer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
John Coxon   Composer,Producer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Ashley Wales   Composer,Producer