Review – i8ub (bake) 2001 – by Deanna Radford, Stylus

Repeated listens to B will present some kind of infusion of pressing atmospheric sounds, driving, nominal clicks and beats. This album is percussive and heavy in a way. The result doesn’t consist of heavy-handed or abrasive qualities, but those of subtlety in the utmost sense. Not unlike Pan Sonic sounds, there is some element of the heavy that is wonderful and inescapable on B…The track Sciatica is a quiet and dense track; it’s as if all of the reverb often expelled with a heavy dub sound has been sifted, as the dub sounds go on to explore on their own and turn up in a ringing and newly-shapen space. Mind though, there is no dub here. Montreal’s i8u has made some really lovely stuff. Her work has been suscribed to in the past as aloof or withdrawn sounding; however, what seems to equal to this listener is simply a rewarding challenge that is quite pro. (Bake/Staalplaat,www.i8u.com) – Deanna Radford, Stylus