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\\\///\\\/ ABE VIGODA
\\\///\\\ AIDS WOLF
\\\// BEANS
2001 interview
\\\///\\\/ BOXLEITNER
\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\ NEIL CAMPBELL AND ROBERT HORTON
Two of the three tracks on the B side find Horton and Campbell working their way back to the dancefloor, but it's the extended opener on side 2 that might be THEE jam here, starting out with a druggy beatscape, that gets blissed out into a hazy bit of kosmische shimmer, only to have the beat drift back to the surface, pulsing away just beneath the surface, a weirdly glistening bit of layered psychedelia, draped over a churning muted rhythm, so awesome, and while it's the longest track here, it still ends way too soon. - Aquarius Records
\\\///\\\///\\\/ CHEN SANTA MARIA
\\\///\\\// CHILD ABUSE
\\\///\\\///\\\///\ CORE OF THE COALMAN
The second half of the record, "Last Help", takes a simple subtle bit of folky steel string guitar, left mostly alone during the intro, but then during the 20 minute piece proper, again delicately recontextualized into a warm tangled swirl of interwoven melodies, of constantly shifting textures, never getting super washed out or blurry, instead, retaining the guitar's sound, and the main melody, mostly adding a haze of echoes and shadows, doubling some of the notes, harmonizing others, the result, not nearly as dense and dizzying as the first half of the record, but equally as blissed out and beautiful.' - Aquarius Records
\\\///\\\///\\\/ GIARDINI DI MIRO
\\\///\ GROWING
\\\///\\\// HIGH CASTLE
Then we have Innocence - by turns quiet and moody or raucous and irascible: a post amphetamine grumble built on a sliding riff and some spattered drumming. Single We Were Lovers is marvellous; a righteous and focussed stomp through some “hellish” urban future when there’s no more Kanye or broadband to console you: “we got bad news for you” indeed.
Some of these titles could get you thinking of Guided by Voices – Bee Medal, Crustaceans Demise and Farewell To Limbs are cases in point; though the songs themselves are much more histrionic and insistent than the classic backwoods GBV drawl: though Crustaceans Demise gets close (it could be a demented Soft Boys track too). I read somewhere that they sound like the Minutemen as well, and yes I can hear that a bit.
Best track on the record has to be Half Mass, with its playground chorus disseminating a brutal message: whereas After God and All Ages Nightmare continue the thumping apocalyptical vibe. It’s a great, sharp and focused record and could be a soundtrack for our times. -Richard Foster, Incendiary Mag
\\\///\\\/ THE INTIMA
\\\ KIT
\\\///\\\// THE LOWDOWN
\\\///\\\///\\\ MIKAELA'S FIEND
\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\ MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED
\\\/// NUZZLE
\\\///\ OUT HUD
\\\// P:ANO
\\\///\\\///\ SCARY MANSION
\\\///\\\/ SEA SCOUTS
\\\///\\\ SILENTIST
\\\///\\\///\\ TOTAL SHUTDOWN
\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\ VARIOUS ARTIST COMPILATIONS
\\\///\\\// WEIRD WEEDS
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