| 词条 | Mastered by Guy at The Exchange | |||||||||||||||||
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| name = Mastered by Guy at The Exchange | type = studio | artist = Max Tundra | cover = MaxTundra-Masteredbytheguyattheexchange.png | alt = | released = {{Start date|df=yes|2002|9|2}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = IDM, indie electronic, glitch[1] | length = 40:59 | label = Domino | producer = | prev_title = Some Best Friend You Turned Out to Be | prev_year = 2000 | next_title = Parallax Error Beheads You | next_year = 2008 | misc = {{Singles | name = Mastered by Guy at The Exchange | type = studio | single1 = Lysine | single1date = 5 August 2002 | single2 = Cabasa | single2date = 21 April 2003 }} }} Mastered by Guy at The Exchange is the second studio album by Ben Jacobs under his stage name of Max Tundra. Released on 2 September 2002 through Domino Records in the United Kingdom and by Tigerbeat6 Records in North America, making it his first album to be distributed in North America. The album was also Max Tundra's first to be released with vocals on nearly all the tracks. Two singles were released from the album: "Lysine" and "Cabasa". The album failed to chart in both the United Kingdom and the United States, but received high critical acclaim with the music website Pitchfork referring to the album as a "A massive achievement" and placed it on their list of Top 50 albums of 2002. ProductionMastered by Guy at The Exchange was the first Max Tundra record to use vocals. In an interview with Pitchfork he explained that "The songs are extremely different from those on the first record. When I was writing Some Best Friend, I thought of all sorts of weird and wonderful machines and instruments I could use to make noises, but singing never occurred to me. I had never considered using my voice on any Max Tundra record ever, but hey, I like to keep things varied, so this time round I figured what the hell!"[2] Max Tundra found it difficult to write lyrics as well, saying "I'm getting to grips with writing lyrics, but it is somewhat more difficult than anything I've done before... The lyrics themselves are taking ages to write-- it's something I'm not used to."[2] The other vocalist on the album is Becky Jacobs who is Max Tundra's sister.[2] The album's title is literal; it was mastered by Guy Davie at a studio named The Exchange. MusicLyricsThis is Tundra's first album with vocals, and all but one of the tracks have vocals.[5][3] The lyrics on Mastered by Guy at The Exchange have been described as not being rich with subtext.[5] Max Tundra refers to this on "Labial" with "I only sing about things that happen to me/ I never learned to fill my songs with allegory"[3] The BBC noted recurring themes included "unaffected tales of Food Chemistry, bands splitting up, employment history and even an homage to video maker Michel Gondry."[9] while Pitchfork noted theme of "girls he's loved or loves, complaints about his day jobs".[5] The lyrics are also littered with musical references.[5] References range from trance music and the band Yes where he sings "Downstair's they're playing trance again / that awful bendy guitar / up through the floor again / It's 9am till I cry / And Time and a Word my friend / Inspires me more than guitars".[5][3] Pitchfork also described the song "Gondry" as a plea to filmmaker and music video director Michel Gondry to direct one for him with lyrics referencing his music videos for "Let Forever Be" and "Around the World".[5][3] Stylus Magazine described the album's first single for "Lysine" as sounding like a nutrition manual with lyrics of "many foods are rich in arginine, concentrate on the ones with more lysine".[4] Max Tundra has also stated that not everything he wrote about actually happened. In an interview with Stylus Magazine, he proclaimed that "half the lyrics on that album are true and half are false, but I'm not gonna tell you which half."[5] StyleMax Tundra's vocals have been described as "high, mellifluous" and that they resemble Scritti Politti's Green Gartside and Prince.[5][19] The album's music style has been described by AllMusic as a "jumpy collision of found sounds, Squarepusher-type beat thrashes, and jaunty wrestling with "real" instrumentation."[19] In a review from the BBC noted of "songs which shift gears regularly, ending up in places their openings barely hint at".[9] The BBC pointed out "Cabasa" which "starts life as lopsided techno and ends up as a slice of piano driven barrelhouse boogie" and "Hilted" which "mutates from Commodore 64 game soundtrack to sunkissed acoustic guitar pop".[9] The BBC's view was reflected in Stylus Magazine{{'}}s review the album which stated that "You may have heard the pounding house anthem that "Labial" sounds vaguely like, but the prog flourishes will catch you off guard".[4] Release and reception{{Album ratings|rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[19] |rev2 = Pitchfork |rev2score = 9.3/10[5] |rev3 = Playlouder |rev3score = {{rating|3.5|5}}[6] |rev4 = Stylus Magazine |rev4score = A[4] }} Mastered by Guy at The Exchange was released in 2002 by Tigerbeat6 in North America and Domino in the United Kingdom.[7][8] The album failed to chart in the United States and was not reviewed by many critics but was received positively by those who did.[9][10] Kingsley Marshall of the online music database AllMusic gave the album four out of five star rating, comparing the album's style to Prince and Squarepusher.[9] The BBC's Peter Marsh wrote positively that Max Tundra has "come up with an album which has more ideas per minute than most of his contemporaries can manage over the course of a career."[11] Chris Dahlen of Pitchfork gave the album a very positive review, referring to the album as "A massive achievement" and claiming that there was "so many synths, beeps, beats, glitches, horns, hooks, voices. It shouldn't work. But it does. Perfectly."[12] Pitchfork also listed the album as the 12th best album on their list of top 50 albums of 2002,[13] and 52nd on their list of the top 100 albums released between 2000 and 2004.[14] Pitchfork also placed the album at number 182 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.[15]Track listing{{Track listing| all_writing = Ben Jacobs | title1 = Merman | length1 = 1:56 | title2 = MBGATE | length2 = 2:27 | title3 = Lysine | length3 = 4:02 | title4 = Fuerte | length4 = 2:07 | title5 = Pocket | length5 = 0:59 | title6 = Cabasa | length6 = 7:12 | title7 = 61over | length7 = 1:08 | title8 = Lights | length8 = 1:39 | title9 = Hilted | length9 = 2:50 | title10 = Acorns | length10 = 3:26 | title11 = Gondry | length11 = 3:26 | title12 = Labial | length12 = 6:09 }} Personnel
Release history
References1. ^{{cite web |author=Ross Hoffman, K. |title=Max Tundra: Styles |publisher=AllMusic |url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p300613|pure_url=yes}} |accessdate=1 December 2008}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite web |author=LeMay, Matt |title=Interview: Max Tundra |date=1 January 2002 |work=Pitchfork |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/31419-interview-max-tundra |accessdate=25 August 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615153710/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/31419-interview-max-tundra |archivedate=15 June 2008}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite web |author=Max Tundra |title=Lyrics |publisher=Max Tundra |url=http://maxtundra.com/lyrics.htm |accessdate=25 August 2008}} 4. ^1 2 {{cite web |author=Martin, Tyler |title=Max Tundra – Mastered By The Guy At The Exchange – Review |work=Stylus Magazine |url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/max-tundra/mastered-by-the-guy-at-the-exchange.htm |date=1 September 2003 |accessdate=25 August 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210114830/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/max-tundra/mastered-by-the-guy-at-the-exchange.htm |archivedate=10 February 2009}} 5. ^{{cite web |author=Powell, Mike |title=Hi! Max Tundra |work=Stylus Magazine |url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/hi/max-tundra.htm |date=2 April 2007 |accessdate=25 August 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210125506/http://www.stylusmagazine.com:80/articles/hi/max-tundra.htm |archivedate=10 February 2009}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://playlouder.com/review/604maxtundra.html|title=PLAYLOUDER {{!}} review – Mastered By Guy At The Exchange by Max Tundra|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030220060636/http://playlouder.com/review/604maxtundra.html|date=3 September 2002|accessdate=26 June 2015|archivedate=20 February 2003|last=Moffat|first=Iain}} 7. ^{{cite web |title=Domino |publisher=Domino Records |url=http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/29-01-07/mastered-by-guy-at-the-exchange/ |accessdate=25 August 2008}} 8. ^{{cite web |title=Tigerbeat6 |publisher=Tigerbeat6 |url=http://www.tigerbeat6.com/index.php?id=3_92 |accessdate=25 August 2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028005312/http://www.tigerbeat6.com/index.php?id=3_92|archivedate=28 October 2007}} 9. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web |author=Marshall, Kingsley |title=Mastered by Guy at the Exchange – Max Tundra |publisher=AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mastered-by-guy-at-the-exchange-mw0000022955 |accessdate=8 May 2012}} 10. ^{{cite book |last1=Warwick |first1=Neil |last2=Kutner |first2=Jon |last3=Brown |first3=Tony |title=The Complete Book of the British Charts |publisher=Omnibus Press |year=2004 |isbn=1-84449-058-0}} 11. ^1 2 3 {{cite web |author=Marsh, Peter |title=Max Tundra Mastered by Guy at the Exchange Review |publisher=BBC Music |date=20 October 2002 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/qnvr/ |accessdate=25 August 2008}} 12. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{cite web |author=Dahlen, Chris |title=Max Tundra: Mastered by Guy at the Exchange |date=20 October 2002 |work=Pitchfork |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5160-mastered-by-guy-at-the-exchange/ |accessdate=7 November 2014}} 13. ^{{cite web |author=Pitchfork staff |title=Top 50 Albums of 2002 |page=4 |date=1 January 2003 |work=Pitchfork |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5888-top-50-albums-of-2002/4/ |accessdate=7 November 2014}} 14. ^{{cite web |author=Pitchfork staff |title=The Top 100 Albums of 2000–04 |page=5 |work=Pitchfork |date=7 February 2005 |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5956-the-top-100-albums-of-2000-04-part-one/5/ |accessdate=7 November 2014}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/7710-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-20-1/?page=1|work=Pitchfork|author=Pitchfork staff|title=The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s|page=1|date=28 September 2009|accessdate=1 October 2009}} 16. ^1 2 {{cite web |title=Discography |publisher=Max Tundra |work= |url=http://maxtundra.com/discography.htm |accessdate=25 August 2008}} External links
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