Plaid ˇ
The Digging Remedy
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All the elements that first inspired Ed and Andy are here – like the ecstatic Detroit chords in ‘CLOCK’ – but everything is bigger and broader in scope, more luxuriant, more gleaming with detail. Yet while the production values are the very highest, none of this is slickness or high drama simply for its own sake, and never do Plaid engage in the crowd-pleasing vainglorious stadium bombast that is all too common in electronic music now. Of course they don't – as they say: “in our opinion it should be the artists leading the audiences, not the other way round”. That's something that could stand as Plaid's motto, and the thing that's kept them so very fresh over all these years, even as their aims and values remain just what they were at the start.