Concrete Igloo

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Concrete Igloo
Dandi Wind Concrete igloo-2006.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary, 2006
Recorded2005
Genre Post-industrial, electropunk, electronica, experimental
Length44:45
Label Summer Lovers Unlimited Music
Producer Szam Findlay
Dandi Wind chronology
Concrete Igloo
(2006)
Yolk of the Golden Egg
(2008)

Concrete Igloo is the first full-length album by Canadian post-industrial band Dandi Wind. [1] All songs were written and produced by Szam Findlay, with Dandilion Wind Opaine providing vocals.

Dandi Wind was a post-industrial band created in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2003. The band consisted of duo Dandilion Wind Opaine and Szam Findlay. Opaine went on to form the disco band Fan Death. "Dandi Wind" released two albums, 2006's Concrete Igloo and 2008's Yolk of the Golden Egg in addition to several EPs and singles, and featured in a variety of magazines and media outlets, including Supersweet Magazine, NME, Dazed & Confused, Exclaim!, Nightlife Magazine, The Nerve, Discorder Magazine, The Georgia Straight, and Trash Menagerie.

Contents

Critical reception

Drowned in Sound wrote that the album is "energetic, confrontational and bizarre electronic noise with a strong vein of inventive humour and a breathless speediness to its rhythms" and has a "varied and somewhat deranged set of subject matter...one which surely requires a varied and somewhat deranged melodic setting". [2]

Drowned in Sound, sometimes abbreviated to DiS, was a UK-based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway. Founded by editor Sean Adams, the site featured reviews, news, interviews, and discussion forums.

Track listing

(all songs written by Szam Findlay)

No.TitleLength
1."Pluck It Out"3:19
2."Flooded Grass"3:03
3."Balloon Factory"3:10
4."Slumlord"4:07
5."Shrapnel"3:34
6."Apotemnophilia"2:24
7."Utopia Now"2:27
8."Hostages"4:38
9."2010"2:15
10."Hitch Hiker"3:32
11."Einsteinbrains"4:30
12."Kindergarden Cop"3:15
13."Biddings"3:58
14."Mafu Cage"2:33

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References

  1. "Dandi Wind". Idiomag . Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  2. "Dandi Wind - Concrete Igloo". Drowned in Sound . Retrieved 2011-07-28.