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Africa Is A Fridge E​.​P

by Pete Um

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Tongue 00:52
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4.
Holy Fire 02:07
5.
Freak 02:18

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Um ‎– Africa Is A Fridge EP

Label: Strange Lights – SL1
Format: Vinyl, 7"
Country: UK
Released: 17 Jul 2004

A1 The Man's Got Me Beat
A2 Tongue
A3 Africa Is A Fridge
B1 Holy Fire
B2 Freak


500 copies pressed on clear vinyl.

strange lights press release...
alternately absurd and acutely real, these five songs from the enigmatic cambridge-based um are propelled by off-kilter, charity shop grooves, sampled loops and post-digital crunches and hums. his style is short, darkly humourous tales that are frequently eccentric and often touching. something like the lovechild of solex and felix kubin, sent back in time to an english school to hide their shame, he has developed a means of encoding his anxieties about life thus far in audio form, presented here for you to decipher.

Mimaroglu said:
vocal-led sci-fi songs from this trooper, affiliated with mr. felix kubin (they recently went on tour together throughout mainland europe.) kind of hard to peg; between the bedroom warped hip-hop of the anticon lot, the high-toned vocals & studio warp of this heat, and the sampled ragga & techo beats of any number of contempo laptop-performer types. actually quite original...

Boomkat said:
"These five songs from the enigmatic Cambridge-based UM are propelled by off kilter charity shop grooves, sampled loops and post-digital crunches and hums.His style is short, darkly humourous tales that are often touching. UM has shared live space with Hot chip , V/VM, Felix Kubin, Panda Bear, Kevin Blechdom and Mum. Pressed on clear vinyl with an A7 artwork card....500 only."

The Man's Got Me Beat

Charming

Pint of beer

Plenty of the reasons
you supposedly gave
are just sticks in the water
it's hardly a concrete
this piecemeal perception
is driving me loopy
it's practically useless
in the face of their illusion
cos the man's got me beat
the man's got me beat
your horse sense is rubbish
your hand-me-down wisdom
is crap to truthseekers
and unbalancing bullshit
cos the man's got me beat
the man's got me beat
your harrassed steadfastness
is ripping the cotton
it's warping the whitescreen
and bending the figures
the way you hang on to
your big empty nothing
is charmingly British
and stupidly stupid
cos the man's got you beat
the man's got you beat
the man's got you Pete

white light

new shoes

the man's got you beat

credits

released October 24, 2012

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Pete Um Cambridge, UK

"A master of the miniature electro-acoustic song-poem, a form he has more or less invented and crystallised himself, his work displays a sardonic wit combined with a healthy misanthropy, in marvellous micro-collages of voice, instruments, samples, and electronics."

-Ergo Phizmiz
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