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Member Since: 03/05/2006
Band Website: www.anominousrecords.co.uk
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Influences: (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
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Record Label: three albums and one EP available on Benbecula

My Blog

Here Comes Everyone reviewed in Wire Magazine Feb 2008 - ...expansive and elegiac... 

Reverbaphon's third album for Benbecula is drawn from recordings made between 2004 and 2006, with more of the concise and crafted pieces that made his first two albums notable. Working alone, Paul Smi...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:28:00 GMT

Review - Pop Matters - Here Comes Everyone

The music of Paul Smith, most often released under the name Reverbaphon, deeply honours his rich Scottish heritage. His humble roots in Dundee and Bristol, where music in all its many forms is consist...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:41:00 GMT

Review - DeBug (Berlin) - Here Comes Everyone (in German)

Hier mal jemand, der von Platte zu Platte einfach immer besser wird. Und wahrscheinlich nur noch zwei weitere Releases braucht, bis er sich alle übrig gebliebenen Flausen selber aus dem Kopf gezogen h...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:36:00 GMT

Review - Cyclic Defrost - GTATATATAHA - bowerbird-like unpredictable downbeat pop

Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist / producer Paul Smith (aka Reverbaphon) takes his name from a rather unconventional musical instrument of his own invention dubbed the 'reverbaphone.' Constructed f...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:31:00 GMT

Review - Tiny Mix Tapes - Our heart beats With Joy - approaching the power of Radiohead's Kid A

The first time I listened to Our Heart Beats With Joy, I had just smoked a bong around one in the morning. I wanted something with subtlety to ease my slight feeling of illness as I'd been to a house ...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:19:00 GMT

XLR8R Review - Here Comes Everyone switches from melodious textures to experimental riffing

Post-rock, avant-rock, whatever you want to call it, the latest LP from Reverbaphon is a chin-scratching affair. With a mix of ambient electronics, samplers, and free jazz rhythms, Here Comes Everyone...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:04:00 GMT

Review - Our heart beats with joy - lightly produced aesthetic

Comfort Music mp3 love, whenever i get around to it 24, 2005 I repeat Normally I view music described as "lo-fi" with a certain trepidation, since "lo-fi" can mean both "taking creative advantage of...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:03:00 GMT

Review - The Wire - Our heart Beats With Joy - Concise, beautifully arranged songs

"Concise, beautifully arranged songs, each successive track a small surprise as Smith incorporates folk, jazz and electronic elements into spacious melodies with varying textures.  It's modernist...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:02:00 GMT

Review - Here Comes Everyone (Textura)

Reverbaphon (Glaswegian Paul Smith) follows his own debut full-length Our Heart Beats With Joy (The Curved World Outside) with Here Comes Everyone, a spacious and open-ended foray into organic avant-f...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:00:00 GMT

big thanks to Niel (Box)

Thanks for showing me how to work MySpace, get my tracks up, etc Cheers Mate... see you soon
Posted by on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:12:00 GMT