Plaid - Double Figure

[adam]

I'm in love with this album.

I found out about Plaid at a Squarepusher show. They were opening for him years and years ago in Vancouver. We were outside the venue, lined up and stoked, when they came out and told us Squarepusher didn't make his flight, and we could get a full refund or a partial refund and still see Plaid.

We weren't sure what we wanted to do, so me and my two friends ate the pot cookies we had brought and went over to a nearby pub to have a couple of beers and discuss what we should do for the night. I had heard good things about Plaid, and we ended up deciding to check them out. We went back to the venue as the cookies got on top of us.

We pushed our way to the center of the floor and I think all three of us stood motionless for the entire set, mesmerized. They had a big screen with things like loops of birds flying and the cookies were very intense and the show was just marvelous. I was spellbound.

So, I have Double Figure on vinyl, but for many months I was going to sell my turntables, and I didn't have them hooked up. I recently set them up again, and regained access to that album.

I'm in love, as I said. This album, has, for me, aged so well. Whereas some of the Warp kin sounds quite dated, and, in fact, as does some of their other work, this album still sounds incredibly fresh to me. Wonderful, lush, sweet little sounds. Go listen to it.