V/VM - Sometimes, Good Things Happen [Gold]

This, the "quiet one" (relatively speaking) of a pair of CDs titled and packaged identically (the differentiator being separate color schemes), shows that James Kirby and friends aren't just arch electronic pranksters; in fact, they can produce "serious" music as well as any serious electronic musician out there. A collection of 12 pieces, the gold edition of Sometimes, Good Things Happen forswears the Stock, Aitken & Waterman samples in favor of a succession of sounds: isolationist ring-modulator ambience, analogue electronics experimentation, and a few mildly grating noise pieces. Read More