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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
Koremora:
In response to my old stuff on the blog being gone: I sort of felt like it was the right time to make a fresh start of things, being that I'd been gone for over a year. I've got word files of all the old reviews, but my writing has changed and matured a bit over the year and I'd like to just continue on from where I am now.
ALSO: Post-Rock in the Bark Psychosis/Talk Talk/Tarentel/Tortoise vein is closer to what the original definition of post-rock was (rock instruments for non-rock music). It's awesome for breaking up the monotony of GIAA and its ilk. In regards to Tunnel Blanket, I don't think it necessarily re-invented the wheel, but it did delve into some serious textural/structural explorations closer to a drone doom record than most post-rock dares. It's especially significant considering they went from excellent-but-fairly-run-of-the-mill to something much more dark and expansive. The fact that there is/was a decent outcry against it on sites like last.fm (OMG WERE R THA PRETTY PARTS DIS IS BORIN/SCARY) sorta goes to show how incestuous post-rock in that vein has gotten, and how important it is to have records like Tunnel Blanket that push at the edges a bit. I'd be hard pressed to name another post-rock record similar to it. The closest comparison I can think of is like a doomy version of Sigur Ros's ( ).
tricia kidd:
i agree that the new TWDY is more "droney", but i still can't shake the feeling that MONO has been doing that for years. i really like it, but it's not as exciting to me as like the Efrim Menuck solo album or whatever.
the thing about Tarentel is that in the late 90s/2000 they really did sound just like GY!BE or Mogwai, and then years later made a decision to sound almost industrial and raw; i don't think they were aping Disco Inferno, i think they were listening to a lot of Einstuzende Neubauten's old records. i think We Move Through Weather is so important because circa 2004 nobody outside the industrial scene was daring to sound anything like that. and it's amazing.
i had no idea TWDY had an "outcry" against them, that's just fucking ridiculous on all counts. right now i still prefer the s/t album, but raging against the new one is just retarded.
sean:
Ampere - Like Shadows
I feel Ampere is band that you either are in love with, or you completely hate. Certainly, a certain taste is needed to appreciate their ferocious brand of hardcore. Personally, I absolutely love Ampere. Their new album, Like Shadows, certainly isn't going to change yr opinion if you think their abrasive music is too disorganized, or even just too overwhelming. But if you dig it, this album goddamn delivers. Since their last release in 2008 (i think?) they haven't changed much, but they haven't lost their touch at all. On Like Shadows, Ampere is just as charged and passionate as they have been in the past, if not more so.
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sean:
oh headsup tho, that copy isn't gapless, so there's a pause in between each track, which kinda sucks. whatever tho, new ampere, worth it.
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Kangding Ray - OR [raster-noton; 2011]
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Kanding Ray's 2008 LP Automne Fold is one of the stand-out Raster-Noton releases of recent years; within it, David Letellier managed to impose a unique pop sensibility and structure upon the kind of disciplined, fanatically detailed brand of computer music that's relatively common to his label brethren. For OR, his third LP to date, the producer offers a similarly focussed, bass-fuelled attack in a bid to depict "the disillusions of modern civilizations"; the title is a reference to the English word indicating the possibility of another choice, and to the French word for gold, a substance which has retained its value over many thousands of years - both ideas pertinent to Kangding Ray's critique of a global economy and culture gone awry. Ben Frost plays keyboards, Rose Tizane Merrilland lends her voice to 'Monsters', and Magne Mostue to 'Coracoid Process' and a vocal edit of last year's single 'Pruitt Igoe'. Highlights come in the shape of jackhammering industrial stepper 'Athem' and 'Leavaila Scheme', the only R-N track we can think of that so prominently features guitar (albeit heavily distorted). It's another fierce and singular statement from Kangding Ray, surely one of the most interesting electronic artists operating today, and as recommended to fans of sub-heay techno/dubstep from Sandwell District, Anstam, T++ and Andy Stott as it is to R-N regulars.
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