Ned Collette & Wirewalker
Networking In Purgatory
Dot Dash / Remote Control
Australian
troubadour Ned Collette, back from Berlin where he’s based these days, brings
with him his fifth release, a warm, lush record bursting (quietly) with a
clutch of songs that dip and dive like springtime swallows, as intricate as
they are robust
His third record
with a band, Networking In Purgatory
sees Collette in career best form. Beginning with the Beatles-esque ‘At The
Piano’, it slowly builds as an album (for that’s what it is, not merely a bunch
of songs) – the bouncy, bass-heavy ‘Bird’; the minimal and slightly electronic
‘Vanitas Quack’; the initially jazz styled ‘Helios’, which grows into a
high-stepping, beatsy folk jaunt.
It’s a very
considered album, one for headphones with time on one’s hands, and it rewards
handsomely. Recorded between Berlin and Melbourne, its relatively lo-fi sounds,
with Collette’s understated vocal riding shotgun, stand as a high-water mark
for anyone looking to use folk as a base from which to really explore.
3.5/5
Samuel J. Fell
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