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GUM, "Vinyl Anthology"

Sunday, 10 April 2005

Andrew Culler

Music

Gum was the late 1980s project of two locked groove-obsessed Australianyouths. Seduced by the sounds of their warped and scratched records,Andrew Curtis and Philip Samartzis developed a conceptually challengingway to harness the hidden and embarrassing music of phonographic mediagone wrong.

Giuseppe Ielasi, "Gesine"

Sunday, 10 April 2005

Andrew Culler

Music

Ielasi's last solo record Plansis an overplayed favorite of mine and one that marked quite a departurefrom the artist's past work as a featherweight improv stylist, a minerof hidden textures and master of the infinitesimal dynamic. Planswas a grandiose electroacoustic collage largely avoiding Ielasi'stradmark guitar which appeared only at the beginning and end of thepiece, resolving the brief flights of lyricism able to tilt thedisparate currents of the whole toward a slow expanse of weightless,melancholic bliss.

The Residents, "Animal Lover"

Sunday, 10 April 2005

Chris Roberts

Music

Famously cryptic and deliberately obscure, the San Francisco-based Residents have one-upped themselves with Animal Lover,a set of bizarre (even for them) tunes with rhythm tracks based uponanimal mating calls.

Matt Elliott, "Drinking Songs"

Sunday, 10 April 2005

Staff

Music

By all accounts I should be loving this album. Matt Elliott has takenmusic much farther than I could have ever imagined from listening toThird Eye Foundation back in the 1990s. He's a fantastically talentedmulti-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and arranger, and Drinking Songsonce again progresses very slightly from its predecessor.

SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN, "NO MAGIC MAN"

Sunday, 10 April 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

I picked up this CD after the Sunburned Hand of the Man performance atthe Notown Sound Festival in Atlanta this past weekend, directly fromSBHOTM themselves, who seemed very proud of the album, claiming it wastheir best release yet. It's hard to disagree.

BEEQUEEN, "MUSIC FOR THE HEAD BALLET"

Sunday, 10 April 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

This is a reissue of an album that was originally released in a limitedrun on the now-defunct Isomorphic Records in 1996. For this edition, apreviously unreleased 13-minute bonus track from the original sessionshas been appended to the album. Music For the Head Balletis possibly Beequeen's most ambient work to date: a series of quietlyabstract, lengthy organ drones that amass slowly over time, graduallyrevealing their denseness and complexity.

"Everything Comes & Goes"

Sunday, 10 April 2005

Joshua David Mann

Music

Thinking critically about tribute albums is always easier when thesongs are not mere regurgitations of the originals. To laud one band'snearly-symmetric treatment of another band's song leaves a grotesquetaste in your mouth and feels almost a betrayal in some way.

A HAWK AND A HACKSAW, "DARKNESS AT NOON"

Sunday, 10 April 2005

Administrator

Music

A Hawk and a Hacksaw is chiefly the work of Jeremy Barnes, previouslyof krautrock brain-sizzlers Bablicon, and more recently of Guignol, abizarre one-off with members of Volcano the Bear. With A Hawk and aHacksaw, Barnes takes many of the European folk music fixations firstglimpsed on the Guignol album to their logical conclusion, creating asuite of ethnographical crossbreeds of indigenous music from France,Spain, Czech, Great Britain and Mexico.

JOSEPH ARTHUR, "COME TO WHERE I'M FROM"

Saturday, 09 April 2005

Jason Olariu

Music

Following up his "Vacancy" mini album from last year, Joseph Arthur returns to the scene a bit wiser.

Alog, "Miniatures"

Sunday, 03 April 2005

Andrew Culler

Music

The third album from one of my three favorite Rune groups makes the second essential Rune release of the year (after Food's Last Supper).The title does not describe a new modus-operandi for the duo; it isinstead an abstracted definition of Alog's unique position since theirfirst record.