Plaid
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
The pair split from Downie in 1995, and began rechanneling their efforts full-time with an EP on the
eo-electro Clear label before signing to Warp. (The pair also recorded an album with European echno figure Mark Broom under the pseudonym Repeat, two tracks of which also made it onto the South of Market EP, released on Jonah Sharps similarly located Reflective imprint.) Both of Plaids first two full-lengths, 1998s Not for Threes and the following years Rest Proof Clockwork, were issued in the U.S. through Nothing. Once Warp set up a home on American shores, however, Plaid made the natural switch with the long-awaited collection Trainer, a retrospective including much of their early, pre-BDP work. The proper third album, Double Figure, followed in spring 2001, and the handy Plaid remix collection Parts in the Post was issued in 2003 by Peacefrog. The end of the year brought the duos fourth proper LP, Spokes. Plaid was quiet on the recording front for several years, returning finally in mid-2006 with Greedy Baby, a mini-album that found the pair co-billed with visual artist Bob Jaroc.
