The latest release from Qua (pronounced, "kwah") bounces into your grey matter like a wave of technicolor cartoon plushies. Q&A is a shimmering sonic lolly bag; it wouldn’t seem out of place to hear ‘Ritmo Giallo’ soundtracking the latest Super Mario Brothers game.
Like the best bits of laptop contemporaries Dan Deacon and Kid606, one-man-band Cornel Wilczek understands the limitless possibilities – and inherent cheesosity – of electronic music. Q&A is an instrumental album bursting at the seams with new ideas, rhythms, sounds, and melodies.**Like fellow Aussies Mountains in the Sky, Qua are more prone to the warm mistakes of live analogue instruments than the gleaming perfections of synth – and the album is much more approachable for it.
This is not an album that takes itself too seriously, and it’s no experimental endurance test. It’s an unbeatably fun adventure up into the next level. Boy-yoy-yoy-yoy-YOING!
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