专辑简介

Player One Ready is Pet's 2004 album.No Yes No, the album's opening track, has already enjoyed some notable success on the European airwaves, and it's not hard to see why: With its dandy blend of male female vocals and some simply composed instrumentation over a driving drum loop, it wouldn't surprise me at all if it were to soundtrack the next mobile phone advertising campaign. Hovercraft takes Pet's principles even further, making slightly more use of dynamics to make the track sound like a natural successor to the song just gone. In fact, they're really quite similar, but the listening is never less than engaging. That, surely, is a sign of quality songwriting.

On the subject of songwriting, Abshagen has confessed that all of Player One Ready's tracks, unlike his electronic creations of old, began life as on the guitar. It actually makes pefect sense from Intro Theme's unspoken story right through to Monza's rich texture of sound, everything seems to be built around pillars of simple chord work. The result? No matter how complex or obscure the instrumentation of lyrical content is, Pet songs are entirely accessible. You could classify the album as electronic pop, because it largely is. The point is, however, that Abshagen's ideas would sound good on a paper and comb. There aren't too many artists you can say that about and mean it.