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Shifting City
John Foxx & Louis Gordon
Shifting City
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop, Rock
 
Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1997 album from Electronic music pioneer John Foxx and his frequent collaborator Louis Gordon. Shifting City was the first work created by Foxx and fellow Mancunian musicia...  more »

     
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All Artists: John Foxx & Louis Gordon
Title: Shifting City
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Edsel Records UK
Release Date: 10/19/2009
Album Type: Import
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop, Rock
Styles: Ambient, Electronica, Progressive, Progressive Rock
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
Other Editions: Shifting City
UPC: 740155207038

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Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1997 album from Electronic music pioneer John Foxx and his frequent collaborator Louis Gordon. Shifting City was the first work created by Foxx and fellow Mancunian musician Gordon, and was released following Foxx's lengthy break from music. Disc One contains the complete album plus three previously unreleased bonus tracks. Disc Two of this special re-issue contains The Omnidelic Exotour, recorded live by Foxx and Gordon at A Certain Ratio's Warehouse in Ancoats, Manchester and at Metamatic Studio in 1997. 26 tracks. Edsel.
 

CD Reviews

A triumphant return from the master of electronic pop.
04/13/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is the best album John Foxx has released since his groundbreaking Metamatic in 1980. A brilliant fusion of electronica and classic pop melodies."
An angel in a ruined suit
N. A. Parry | 03/23/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"John Foxx, whether as creator of Ultravox or solo artist, has always been a pioneer. His warm and emotional songs are paired with a cold detachment, and resulting albums have always been seductive and inspirational because of this. After fourteen (FOURTEEN!) years in the wilderness, Shifting City brings it all back, redressed for the (then) nineties. The same obsessions with ruined and decayed cities, ghosts and shadows, and lush english wildernesses have now been fused with rhythmic, almost dance-like grooves and slower, smokey, more evocative pieces. As a whole, 'Shifting City' embraces all emotions and styles in a way that even his past work has been unable to do. This is essential to everyone with imagination, and he promises many more albums in the near future. If they are anything like this, then they are already highly recommended."
Transition Complete
C. Smith | Edinburgh | 10/20/1999
(4 out of 5 stars)

"At last John Foxx, with Louis Gordon makes the transistion between metal machine music and traditional music. Having flirted with the use of feedback, with Ultravox! with their final Lp "Systems Of Romance" Foxx matches, neigh surpases previous releases with the industrial "The Noise" the beatlesesque "Shifting City" and the breezy, "An ocean we can Breathe" All excellent and certainly worth the money, you'll not buy a better CD of this genre."