From Giles Ward Sent Fri, Oct 31st 1997, 22:26
> eeewwww...why so many vocal parts on the plaid full-length? maybe next > time ed and andy won't resort to using their famous friends voices. i > just don't understand, i was really enjoying the sounds on the album > until the voices kicked in. what do the rest of you who heard the album > think? I'm quite chuffed with it. > am i alone thinking the vocals should've been left out? > personally i can see past it, really? It shouldn't bother you then. Buy a karaoke machine which masks out vocals from tracks if it really upsets you. > but i know i'd prefer the album sans > bjork, nicollete and whoever else plays their bagpipes, err i believe > even andy sings a bit too. yikes, what's the world coming too? lately > i've been noticing a lot of vocal tracks being added to electronic > musicians work, who in the past mostly refrained from it, and while i > guess some people enjoy the use of singing over beats, i know i > definitely do not. Well don't buy it then. Plaid make music for themselves, not fussy, narrow minded IDM Nazis. There's plenty of stuff without vocals on out there. > at the very least i wanna hear people do something > different with the vocals Are you suggesting the likes of Nicolette and Bjork are nothing special? > i'm still pro-instrumental, with the voice being > left out. Try taking your head out of your arse. Do guitars worry you too?