Albums
Hand Cranked
2006
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2006
By Mark Richardson
Reviewed March 29, 2006
Following his amorphous debut, Fi, the Mush artist has whittled his signature guitar style down to a fine point.
Two records in, Stephen Wilkinson's Bibio project has carved out a clear niche for itself. Wilkinson is a pretty fair steel guitar player; his music essentially consists of recordings of him doing his thing and then processing the results in very specific ways. Every word I can think of to describe his music begins with the first letter of his last name: It sounds worn, weathered, woozy, warped, warbling, and warm. Wilkinson clearly loves folk and a certain strand of idyllic electronic music equally, and has found an efficient place for the two to meet.