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A.R. KANE
"An unfairly long-lost classic."
"Breathtaking in it's scope and positively epic."
- Allmusic.com
Arguably one of the most criminally underappreciated groups of the era, the British duo AR Kane anticipated virtually all the key musical breakthroughs of the 1990’s a decade before the fact. The roots of everything from dream-pop to trip-hop to ambient dub (even those of post-rock) were already present in their dreamy, oceanic sounds. 1988's 69 fulfilled all the promise of AR Kane's earlier work and more; cosmic yet funky, its liquid grooves were immersed in waves of ecstatic noise. AR Kane’s mastery of atmosphere and mood — in tandem with its nearly formless songs — firmly establish 69 ‘s bragging rights as the originators of key elements of the nascent shoegazer oeuvre as well as the underground dance music that emerged in the years that followed. The duo's double-LP follow-up, 1989's I, was even more impressive in its scope, breathlessly veering from melodic dance-pop to eerie drone-rock to epic dub mosaics.
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