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Triangles
Moikai
After several weeks of struggle trying to make any sense of this LiefElggren / Kevin Drumm collaboration I reluctantly looked for clues inwhat promotional blurb I could locate. I was rewarded with "criticswill find it shocking easy to find angles and write reviews forTriangles." But despite such discouraging irony it eventually hit methat this is a 70s concept album in the grand tradition things like "AnElectric Storm," "200 Motels" and "Meddle." Endearingly, the only rockmusic on the album is reminiscent of "A Pillow of Winds" but that'swere the stylistic similarities stop. The source material is modern andkaleidoscopic: electronic, clicky digital, noise, sine tones, drones,organ washes, short-wave radio excerpts and various samples. What makesthis a psychedelic concept album is the two uninterrupted sides ofmind-trip ? episodic and monumental with trance inducing static ordevelopmental phases disconnected by bizarre, sometimes jarringtransitions. With that model in mind Triangles is a very pleasing albumand makes perfect sense, in the sense that a psychedelic concept albumdoesn't make sense except in a highly elliptical sense. As anintellectual sound-art object, on the other hand, it makes no sense. Infact, the more I listen to it now, the more nostalgic I become forthose teenage, herbal enhanced headphone listening sessions of the 70s.And take care not to play Triangles on a cheesy stereo; until I playedit in the living room, I thought half the album was clever Cagiansilence while there is in fact nothing of the kind.
After several weeks of struggle trying to make any sense of this LiefElggren / Kevin Drumm collaboration I reluctantly looked for clues inwhat promotional blurb I could locate. I was rewarded with "criticswill find it shocking easy to find angles and write reviews forTriangles." But despite such discouraging irony it eventually hit methat this is a 70s concept album in the grand tradition things like "AnElectric Storm," "200 Motels" and "Meddle." Endearingly, the only rockmusic on the album is reminiscent of "A Pillow of Winds" but that'swere the stylistic similarities stop. The source material is modern andkaleidoscopic: electronic, clicky digital, noise, sine tones, drones,organ washes, short-wave radio excerpts and various samples. What makesthis a psychedelic concept album is the two uninterrupted sides ofmind-trip ? episodic and monumental with trance inducing static ordevelopmental phases disconnected by bizarre, sometimes jarringtransitions. With that model in mind Triangles is a very pleasing albumand makes perfect sense, in the sense that a psychedelic concept albumdoesn't make sense except in a highly elliptical sense. As anintellectual sound-art object, on the other hand, it makes no sense. Infact, the more I listen to it now, the more nostalgic I become forthose teenage, herbal enhanced headphone listening sessions of the 70s.And take care not to play Triangles on a cheesy stereo; until I playedit in the living room, I thought half the album was clever Cagiansilence while there is in fact nothing of the kind.
