Squarepusher – Hello Everything

I have to it that this album came pretty surprising to me. It is very warm and (as people previously stated) very accessible. I enjoyed every second of it. The single "Welcome to Europe" quickly became one of my favorite tracks from Squarepusher. Every other song has a distinctive feeling and sound. I definetly enjoyed this "grown up" yet still "playful" album and recommend it to every music lover who enjoys jazzy, yet modern music!

This album blew me away when I first heard it. A very surprising and my favorite Squarepusher release ever. I love the fusion of mad drum and bass with tuneful Jazz. Also thrown into the mix are plenty of abstract ambient elements. Truely magnificent!

It keeps you on your toes right through the 3 beautiful slabs of vinyl. You are never sure what will be comming next, sometimes I feel like I'm being slapped round the face by it. So complex all the way through I never get tired of listening to it.

This is a very funk album and quite good. Although Im familer with Squarepusher, and have heard all of his music from his different albums Im not really an expert... and i don't own any. But with my groowing interest in Aphex Twin(AFX) and Luke vibert i thogh I'd buy my first Tom jenkinson CD. And it was a great pleasure. although I can see why many aren't calling this innovative or groundbreaking like Feed me weird things or I care because you do I don't think that's any reason to dislike it. I mean, how far can you really push a genre... and honestly I think it reached it peak way back with Do you know squarepusher. Just because he added a "jazzy" flavor to it on Ultravistor, doesn't make it any more innovative... it's the same thing just with a slightly different tone.

Tom J has reached his experimental limits, but not his Musical limits, and this music sound much more melodic than anything I've heard from him to date. hello Meow is a real great, and the single "welcome to Europe" is very fun. So maybe it's not the most innovative peice of work, but so wasn't Chosen Lords and that was still kick ass. It's nice to see an Artist go back to his roots, and still be able to do it better...

2006 sees TJ returning to a more "mellow" sound, if you can describe any of his music as such. After 2 albums of skitter-freakery and 1 of him spilling his brains out onto the canvas(so to speak), we have Hello Everything, an album full of jazz bass, relatively straightforward drums, and overall, it's a very good album.

Straight-up jazz numbers like "Theme from Sprite" and "Circlewave 2"(a worthy followup to its namesake on Ultravisitor); the "Central Line"-esque "Hello Meow"; early Spymania-like tracks such as "Rotate Electrolyte" & "Planetarium"; "Plotinus", which would fit right in with numbers like Big Loada's "Massif" and "Port Rhombus"; "The Modern Jazz Guitar"(the requisite 200+ BPM freakout), and it all ends with "Orient Orange", which sees TJ doing SAW II-era Aphex(and somehow doing it better, which is saying a lot...SAW II is still #1 in my ambient list).

Pick this up, turn the speakers up, and transport yourself...