ADA

Like Areal in general, Ada’s music sounds fresh and oozes a contemporary Cologne sheen but it’s also warm and endearingly retro in its embrace of timeless song structures and analog tools. One of Blondie’s many peaks is ?Each And Everyone (Blindhouse?Mix)? which overlays the heavenly ?Blindhouse? core of skipping beats and harpsichord tinkles with a crooned melody so deliciously forlorn it’s simultaneously heartbreaking and transcendent. Blondie also includes an inspired rendition of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ ?Maps? with an affectingly silky vocal from Ada couched in chiming synths and simple beats. From the hard careening techno of ?Our Love Never Dies? to the Kompakt-styled shuffle of ?The Red Shoes? to the Deep House flavorings of ?Livedriver,? the album marvelously straddles techno and pop with seeming ease, never venturing too far into one without returning to the other. Certainly many of the album’s tracks are rooted in techno yet, always changing, they never devolve into run-on grooves (the best example of this mercurial approach might be the opener ?Eve?); in fact, her original idea of an album filled with short, three-minute songs was abandoned when Areal pushed her to develop them into longer, eight-minute tracks. ?I think that most of all I was and still am influenced by pop-music of all kinds. I used to think that a song couldn’t work if it was over three minutes long but I don’t believe that anymore. Even so, what remains of that original idea is my need for a lot of movement, and maybe that’s why they sound more like songs than tracks.?

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