Felix NEill

Despite it's sheer brilliance, I'm not going to post this album here.

'In a Very Real Sense Now' is the debut album from The European on Stolen Recordings and is limited to 500 luxurious copies. The European is the solo project of London-based musician and electronic artist, Simon Break. Break was previously in Icebreaker, later Icebreaker International, which he formed in the late 1990s with American musician, Alexander Perls. Icebreaker / Icebreaker International recorded three albums on three different labels before disbanding in 2004, 'Distant Early Warning' (Aesthetics, 1999), 'Trein Maersk' (It records, 2000) and 'Into Forever' (Sound of a Handshake, 2003). The latter was a joint offering with Danish producer and musician with manual, while the first two albums Break has always claimed were commissioned by NATO. The European's music is at one level simplistic and melancholic, but at another Break's unusual use of instrumentation and software give it a lingering and mesmerising edge. he prefers to program his own computer materials and design his own instrumentation rather than follow more traditional or conventional paths for creating and making music.

-Rough Trade

I am loving this clever, twisted bedroom pop masterpiece so, so much. I urge you to go and buy a copy. There are only 500 vinyl albums and 100 CDs (I've bought both - so in love with it). This is a future collector's item, and no mistake. It is truly fantastic. I'm rating this as my album of the year so far. So now you know.



The European

Stolen Recordings