"Hello Everything" is Squarepusher's 10th album release and it's being touted as his best yet. The tone is thick with drum n' bass percussion and song structures, using many of the classic "Squarepusher sounds" you've come to know and love. While the sound of Hello Everything is strongly rooted in the frenetic, you'll also hear some nice ambient experimentation, alongside some low tempo jazz infected cuts.

1. Hello Meow
2. Theme From Sprite
3. Bubble Life
4. Planetarium
5. Vacuum Garden
6. Circlewave 2
7. Cronecker King
8. Rotate Electrolyte
9. Welcome To Europe
10. Plotinus
11. The Modern Bass Guitar
12. Orient Orange

"Hello Meow" is among the top 3 songs here. Its percussive frenetics are matched full on with Tom Jenkinson's equally rapid fire bass plucking, and both smoothed out by some nice synth melodies. If it weren't for the fact that he plays the bass live and not on keys here, it might not be so strong. Anyone can play a bass like that on a keyboard, but live, that's a different matter.

"Theme From Sprite" follows directly afterward and pretty much sets the tone in regards to the stylistic changes you'll throughout this album. It's pace is far more relaxed, the percussion is far more humanly coherent, and the instrumentation has a heavily jazz jam influences way about it.

"Vacuum Garden" which follows a little later on demonstrates a little ambient drone experimentation. It reminds of an old sci-fi toy. It was some kind of space battlship (maybe even an early Battlestar Galactica thing, I don't recall) with a gyroscope of some kind inside it so the droning engine noise it made either rose or fell in tone with the direction of the ships nose. Funny how memories come back to you.

In between late 70s/early 80s analog synth experimentation, drum n' bass rhythms, and a healthy interest in jazz instrumentation sits Squarepusher. Surrounding that is the only title that could properly encapsulate the sound of it all; "Hello Everything".

There is no way to describe the multiplicity of layers and moods within the music, and certainly everyone is going to hear and feel something different. If you're a Squarepusher fan already, then there's no question...just get it. If you've got a taste for the styles of music mentioned above, likewise...just get it.

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