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Spanners is the third studio album by English electronic music group The Black Dog. It was released via Warp on 16 January 1995. It peaked at number 30 on the UK Albums Chart. The Black Dog is a British electronic music group, founded in 1989 by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner. The group are considered pioneering figures of techno's ruminative "home-listening" aesthetic in the early 1990s. Following several self-released EPs, the group signed to Warp Records in 1993 and released albums such as Bytes (1993) and Spanners (1995). In 1995, Handley and Turner departed to work on their spin-off project Plaid. Downie continued recording under the band name The Black Dog until his death in 2025, with Richard and Martin Dust joining. The band's early EPs were collected on the 2007 compilation Book of Dogma.
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IDM, Intelligent Dance Music or it could be Loud Ambient or Ambient Techno. I think Ambient Techno fits better. I listened to the album a couple of time and was really unimpressed. Then I listened again with my earbuds... made a huge difference. This is one of those albums that is more about the subtle sounds along with the ambient beats. Chase the Manhattan seemed to be the best song based on my first listen. But this album doesn't seem to be about individual tracks, it's more of a complete package of sounds and style. I can see this album growing on my as time goes on. Standouts: Chase the Manhattan Rating: 3/5
It's alright as background music, but mostly forgettable. 3 stars.
Not my kind of music so this was a hard listen.