Bibio is inviting us to a tinkering session in his herb garden. After having captured the feeling of a city at night with his album »Mind Bokeh« he uses »Silver Wilkinson« to wander back to mother nature. Some tracks were made by Bibio by taking his MPC, a guitar and an old tape recorder out to the garden in order to capture tiny spectacles of nature: Like the way that rain is trickling on a rooftop. At other parts, he actually drums on a watering can or fills percussion-parts by opening and closing the garden shears. You get the idea of how harmonious »Silver Wilkinson« is. Each song seems to breathe dust and daisies towards the sun – the result is as pretty as it’s lulling. The richness of detail sounds naive; everything is cute, innocent and harmless. In most songs, Bibio’s voice is maundering through old recording devices. Underneath, you’ll hear the guitar plinking and plonking away, as well as as other noise swooshing through the speakers. The only tracks breaking up the idyllic picnic are »You« and »Business Park«. But the record would have needed more of these surprising elements; this way, the songs just appear to be out of place. I nominate »Silver Wilkinson« to become the soundtrack for the remake of Bambi – a movie I would never watch.
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