Phil Kieran
Shh
Cocoon Recordings
Phil Kieran鈥檚 debut album is an ethereal mix of techno bliss and futuristic digital sounds.
Kieran鈥檚 background as DJ, producer and film-score creator for Steven Soderbergh鈥檚 The Girlfriend Experience, means that Shh doesn鈥檛 sound like a debut album. A confident and self-assured piece of work, it makes no apologies for the eclectic mix of influences melded together. Kieran aims to create an album that 鈥渃aptures everything [he鈥檚] ever loved about music鈥 is fulfilled in Shh.
Cut Copy Waste is the first indication that this album can be the soundtrack to a chilled-out drive or lazy weekend whilst tearing up a massive club audience. Raining for Old Friends arrives in the middle of the album and smashes any preconceptions you鈥檇 already built about Shh through the first six tracks. With the rain-shower sampled in the background, it mesmerises the mind into a relaxed state that makes Don鈥檛 Look Far Away an exhilarating euphoric and contrasting follow-on.
Phil Kieran has created an album impossible to pigeonhole into one solid genre with new sounds, samples and guest vocals. Shh is an album that keeps on giving. .
Sophie Gordon