Track Listing

1. Zoft Broiled Ed
2. Noop
3. Waknuts
4. Halyloola
5. Urenforpuren
6. Phulcra
7. Rainslaight
8. Diamortem

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #225205 in Music
• Released on: 2007-07-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .12 pounds

Album Description
The new official Bola full-length arrives after a long wait, following 2004's slick and calm Gnayse. Kroungrine is Bola's fourth proper studio full-length (or, the fifth, if you count 2006's Shapes), filling out the puzzling/thrilling stable of releases that also includes 1998's IDM classic, Soup and 2001's synthy and melodic Fyuti. What Kroungrine sounds like is anyone's guess, but it drops like chewy beef and overcooked roasties. It has a crunch and fullness that satisfies and leaves you feeling truly replenished and unable to move, except maybe for just playing again, using that just-barely reachable remote control. And by the way, Kroungrine refers to "crown green bowls," a variant of lawn bowls played in the north of England. The "crown" is a very slight mound in the middle of the green, making the game more difficult.

Customer Reviews

Walking forward, looking back
Satisfying fifth release from the intelligent dance musicians serves as an ideal amalgam of Bola's specific computerized jams. Utilizing some signature drum sounds, the album still leans forward, occasionally cutting up vocals with an always-commanding production leading the more accessible, less introspective sound. Whether or not many of these moderately successful ventures secure the whole disc rides on the longest closer, a beautiful, if unnecessarily multi-part, anticipatory "until next time".

altogether beautiful
Bola's latest masterpiece Kroungrine represents a striking new direction for the project and Fitton's best offering since Fyuti. Some of the songs are startlingly lyrical, almost resembling Jello more than previous Bola outings. But the complex tapestry of glitchy textures bears the unmistakable stamp of Darrell Fitton.

Bola has given us some of the richest, most interesting electronic music to date, and this album does not disappoint. Although it is a little uneven and lags toward the end, this is nonetheless one of the best I've heard this year. Highly recommended.