If you've already heard Dan Abrams' name is probably due to the fact he's other releases out on 12K label or on glorius Mille Plateaux. If you're just confidential with the second of these two labels, you know how many of its releases are based on music that's electronic but usually also "uneasy" (Murcof or Neina for example). Fenton's the opposite of "hard", popsters out there, you're warned!. "Pup" is a warm and confidential but nor intimist neither "hardly digestible", according to the words of mr. Abrams: "I always enjoyed the beginning and the ending of pop songs. I wanted to know what would happened if I made an album out of just those moments". "Incredibile dictu" this cd sticks perfectly to the intentions of his maker, it will make you exactly think to pop songs' intros/outros with the same tension and the same feeling as everything could go on forever. Dan aka Fenton aka Shuttle 358 comes form the minimal (and never forget "minimal" doesn't imply cheap) electronic scene and works mainly with microsounds, loops, acoustic guitars, processed electric guitars and his beloved laptop, of course. One of the most appreciable qualities of Fenton's music is to make the listeners feel comfortably drown into the slow tempos of the tracks, at the same time the "everything is neverending" atmosphere will relent the peace of your heart. "Pup" is soft like wadding, nay it's snow that paints the mountain white, you sit down making a deaf noise waiting patiently for the hours to fade. "Pup" is the first Christmas' gift even if December has yet to come.