Bubblegum Records is pleased to announce the release of the fourth Hyperbubble album,
Drastic Cinematic. While Hyperbubble’s previous album, Candy Apple Daydreams, was
a Technicolor cartoon triple -layer wedding cake with 16 tons of frosting and a cherry
on top, Drastic Cinematic is exactly the opposite: A stripped down soundtrack of
black & white audio noir. This is Hyperbubble’s very un-ambient Music For Films.
Available from the 1st July
Welcome to Infinity is a slice of lovable super synth funk and takes their inimitable
charm onto the dancefloor. The single mix sees Jeff giving it some of that pulsating
Vince Clarke styled synth magic while Jess adds her space age vampiness. The extended
remix by I European is at a less frantic pace but bolstered by some heavier mechanised
snaps and various Klingklang intrusions.” Electricity Club, Feb 2011
"Candy Apple Daydreams", twelve new rainbow pop confections from the photogenic
duo.
Like it's colourful cover art suggests, Candy Apple Daydreams is the soundtrack to
a cartoon world of fifty foot drum machines and synthesizer patch bays that tower
into the clouds. The album is a full fledged Moog mini-movie with an overture, main
theme, reprise, climax, and epilogue, all tightly edited and propelled into the future
at a dangerous speed from the moment of liftoff.
Candy Apple Daydreams - 7.5 out of 10 Face it, not all music that one comes across
has to have a deeper philosophical meaning or be a piece of art, some of it can be
quite simply unpretentious fun stuff. The kind of bouncy and bubbly upbeat party
music which brings about the feet-tapping reflex and which can linger in one’s ear,
only to come back when least expected. In short, Hyperbubble provide us with this
audio version of delicious artificially-flavoured chewing gum – with the advantage
that it will always remain fresh and fully-flavoured to be revisited at any time
(unlike the chewing gum you stuck under the seat just now…). As an added bonus, their
brand of musical chewing gum is also particularly witty, with the odd mordant lyrics,
but the mood is always hopelessly upbeat and optimistic without being in the least
naïve. And all the British idiosyncrasies only add to the charm of the album – “Mind
the Gap” is the obvious example for those who have been to London but “Pictures of
Paradise” is all the more subtle in its lighthearted treatment of the more serious
subject of excessive CCTV vigilance in the UK. If you like your electro and synthpop
unashamedly fun and optimistic, “Candy Apple Daydreams” is a must; if you’re just
curious, give Hypperbubble a chance and listen with an open mind… Perhaps it’s true
when they say that “good times are taking over!” Connexion Bizarre, Feb 2011
