The duo Plaid (Ed Handley and Andy Turner) has guaranteed high quality electronic music for years. From their first album (1997), Handley and Turner proved once again with their IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) that the idea that electronics would be insensitive, cold or boring was completely outdated. Plaid excels in combining sensitive melodies with beats and bleeps and beeps, and knows very well
… how to find the middle between accessible and difficult and strange, so that it always remains exciting. This also makes Plaid very good remixers, which could be heard on the beautiful mix compilation (2003). Spokes is the fourth Plaid album and is again at a high level. Sometimes it sounds light, cheerful and playful, then it sounds dark, threatening and heavy. Plaid has also made an impressive record with Spokes. (IV)more
