Get the latest Vert news as an RSS feed
Listen to the new album:
| Is This Thing On? | |
| The Thing About Tony Jackson | |
| Things at Speed | |
| All Things to All People (People Get Ready) | |
| Monk's Thing (Nutty) | |
| The Light, the Femininity of the Thing | |
| Something Else | |
| Fabrizio's Thing (Raga del Cuore) | |
| All These Things I Know | |
| Thingumajig |
Listen to the not-quite-so-new-anymore album:
| Gretchen Askew | |
| Velocity | |
| This One | |
| It Is So | |
| The Familiar Girl | |
| October | |
| Yrs | |
| Paper Wraps Stone | |
| Step Under the Bulbshine | |
| ...Said the Signal to the Noise | |
| Words |
Buy it:
Reviews | Web & Blogs | Features | Archive
Reviews
Resonance, Jan 2007
an album of extraordinary eclecticism... he's made Ragtime cool again
Treble, Jan 2007
chaotic... alluring... almost metaphysical... some kind of composition... it sounds cool... confident displays of mastery
BPM, Nov 2006
a very, very unique album... Listen from start to finish and you're guaranteed to come out of the experience with a newfound muscial mindset
Remix Magazine, Oct 2006
What makes Beans stand out, though, is its unique melding of turn-of-the-century piano with quirky pop and electronic flourishes
Asthmatic Kitty, Oct 2006
...a magic infused wunderkammer set upon robotic legs that dances a mean swing and jag
Plan B Magazine, Oct 2006
...a perfect summer sway, an appealing cybersquelch...
Goon Magazine, Oct 2006
...unheimlich verspielt ... die Produktion kommt genauso professionell, ... locker und unkonstruiert
Blow Up, Oct 2006
Vert dimostra un'abilita veramente sorprendente nell'inserire elementi disparati nello stesso corpo
8/10
Illinois Entertainer, Nov 2006
...a mashup masterstroke of sonic exploration 7/10
Sentire Ascoltare, Nov 2006
Uno dei dischi dell’anno. 7.5/10
Debaser, Dec 2006
una perfetta sintesi tra ... Justin Timberlake e ... Micheal Stipe
****
FAZ, Dec 2006
...irgendwo zwischen Balkan und Britpop, zwischen deutscher Frickelelektronik und nord-amerikanischen Hip-Hop
Berliner Zeitung, Nov 2006
Reinkarnation als surrealer Beatnik
cdreviews.com, Nov 2006
full of daring pop songs
Spex, Oct 2006
Excellent album by a wilful and unruly character
The Red Alert, Nov 2006
truly unique... The sheer amount of work and instrumentation put into each track is astonishing, as is the resulting sound
Web & Blogs
Spin.com, Sept 2006
Hey, this is awesome!
Download The Familiar Girl mp3
The Yellow Stereo, Oct 2006
... a catchy display of pop that both amuses and amazes ... sounds like not much else on today's music scene
Tontraeger, Oct 2006
Tom Waits auf Mango Cola... In welche Schublade passt das bloss hinein?
download.com, Sept 2006
Download Velocity mp3
If a weird German techno label had produced the Streets...
Features
Spex, Oct 2006
Sometimes I feel flamenco
"An Atari and a 2 second sampler - everyone should go through that at some point..."
TAZ, Nov 2006
Was u¨brig bleibt
eine wundervolle Platte, so schräg wie melodiös, so fantasievoll wie klischeereich
Debug, Oct 2006
Road accident funk
I have to think of Kate Bush... of course the singing's different...
Intro, Oct 2006
Polluted pop
"It's no conincidence that the saddest eyes in cinema are Buster Keaton's"
Jazzthetik, Nov 2006
Soundcheck
An invisible jukebox over breakfast