Bogus Blimp -- Cords, wires -- Voices Of Wonder, 2000 [Last Sigh Magazine]

1. Hello World
2. Brothers of Space
3. No Cords, No Wires
4. Marching to Rome
5. By Five O'clock Tea
6. King inst. King
7. The End of the World
8. Under the Sea
9. Oxygen xx
10. Sugar and Fear
11. Making Room for God
12. Flight to the Future
13. Things to Come

    "Cords, wires" is Bogus Blimp's second international release (the first was "Men Mic"). It opens with "Hello world," a short piece of 1930s radio frequency sounds. Next is a peculiar patchwork of static, cartoon voices, and spoken word over a Vegas vamp, called "Brothers of Space," which sets up for the eccentricity of the rest of the CD.
    Many of the works on this album are inspired by the electronic technologies of the late 20th century. Radio, television, video games and pure white noise provide the basis for the sounds found here. "Marching to Rome" is a track of cartoonish computer game sound effects. "King inst. King" is a symphony of white noise with a good beat that is never fully realized because it is too often interrupted with samples and spoken word. "Sugar and Fear" and "Oxygen xx" are keyboard compositions that briefly break up the broadcast collages.
    "Making room for God" returns to the sci-fi sounds and radio static. At last, vocals and beats can be faintly discerned. "Things to come," the final track, is a beautiful lonely piano, At first it doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the album's feeling of having one's brain hardwired into a late night 1950s science fiction re-run. But, perhaps it like the final scenes of an "Outer Limits" episode, meant to haunt you and make you question what went before.