CHRIS CLARK
CLARENCE PARK
ALBUM WARP RELEASE: APRIL 2, 2001 REVIEW: APRIL 2, 2001

Chris Clark must have a short attention span. On his debut album "Clarence Park", the new Warp signing shifts so rapidly between styles and tempos, that it almost sounds like Aphex Twin and Max Tundra trying to use the same sampler, at the same time.
With an average length of just about two minutes, the fourteen songs on "Clarence Park" are rushed through in such a neck-breaking pace, that it almost makes you forget to breathe. Sampler vandal Clark, tears break beats to pieces, throws in a flute in the brilliantly titled "Lord of the Dance", uses the most violent cut-ups I've heard in ages, and lets vicious bass frequencies mutilate cute melodies.
I wouldn't want all artists to sound like this, but "Clarence Park" should teach all the introvert, academic electronica artists of today, that there are millions of ways to have fun with electronics.

KRISTOFFER NOHEDEN