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| Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: Brighter Summer Day Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Decked out in a skullfucked sleeve that looks like a cross between Slayers gorecore classic Seasons In The Abyss and the prison tattoo iconography of original Cleveland gutter punks The Electric Eels, the debut vinyl from Ohios Burning Star Core reconciles the euphoric, physical power of Metal with punk primitive aesthetics and huge lungfuls of drone. The A side is 16 minutes of heavy violin thats more Sonny Sharrock than Tony Conrad, with mainman C Spencer Yeh amassing waves of singing overtones via treated strings and electronics, while Chris Rosing provides the horizontal momentum, accelerating the piece towards the horizon with an epileptic bass drum and some furiously clanking chains. The piece builds to nowhere, growing more potentially eplosive and menacing with each pass, with Yeh stretching his violin to even more extended peaks while never relenting on the tension. The second side features Yeh alone, working through some "sleep deprivation experiments" with a laptop for company. Here he alternates strangulated computer tones that sound liek theyre being torn from a huge electronic harmonica with wraithe-like breaths turning through disconcertingly staggered loops." - David Keenan, WIRE. |
| Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: The Very Heart of the World Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Only BXCs second full-length. An incredible record of deep drones and pulses, voice-cuts, and building/collapsing rhythmsThe Very Heart of the World is incredibly rich, colorful and immense. Led by C Spencer Yeh on violin, voice, electronics, piano (+) and featuring among others, Sara OKeefe, Mike Shiflet, and the Beatty/Connelly/Tremaine Hair Police axis. A classic, now. Edition of 500 LPs / full color heavy jackets / 180 gram vinyl." - Thinwrist. |
| Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: The Very Heart of the World Format: CD Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Only BXCs second full-length. An incredible record of deep drones and pulses, voice-cuts, and building/collapsing rhythmsThe Very Heart of the World is incredibly rich, colorful and immense. Led by C Spencer Yeh on violin, voice, electronics, piano (+) and featuring among others, Sara OKeefe, Mike Shiflet, and the Beatty/Connelly/Tremaine Hair Police axis. A classic, now." - Thinwrist. |
| Artist: CURTAINS, THE Title: Flybys Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "If Wendy Carlos joined the Shaggs to perform Ravels Mother Goose suite, it might sound like Flybys. If the Albert Ayler ensemble took a break from the Love Cry sessions to score the Rockford Files on portable moog and electric kitchen colander, it might sound like Flybys. If Brian Wilson recreated Stan Kentons City of Glass for the Commodore 64 platform, it might sound like Flybys. If Forever Changes, Martians Go Home and Beefhearts Tropical Hot Dog Night were summarized a la Masterplots on musical 3x5s, it might sound like Flybys. Think of asterisks, park maintenance, telegraph wires and the alpine biathlon. Thats what the Curtains did when they wrote Flybys! They call the Curtains "coming of age" music. Full of sweet accidents and big ideas in small packages, what you get are compact, highly personal compositions, neither hot nor cold, but whimsical, lighthearted, portable and idiosyncratic - the warm inventions and cool abstractions of the thinking mans casual imagination on the move. With members of Deerhoof, Natural Dreamers and Open City, they are certainly a mixed bag, but youll like it! " - Thinwrist. |
| Artist: CURTAINS, THE Title: Flybys Format: CD Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Artist: CURTAINS, THE Title: Fast Talks Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Why make up your minds? You have ears! Musical miniaturist the Curtains present their own kind of west coast cool - a muted music that never reaches the proper conclusion. Aloof and alert, these Curtains keep their music sitting right on the edge of hot and cold. Composed using their unique Dynathought method, the pieces are like a stream of musical memos or thought bubble goofs shook out from an IBM punchcard computer. The result? Something in between a weather bureau report and a private confidence: itd seem nonchalant if it werent so personal; itd seem almost warm if it werent so scientific! Their Debut, from San Fransisco, 180 gram vinyl." - Thin Wrist. |
| Artist: KOLOVOS, PETER Title: New Bodies Format: LP Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Full Color Heavy Tip-On Cover / 180 Gram Vinyl Edition of 500. "Peter Kolovos, guitarist in Los Angeles trio Open City, presents here three tracks of electric guitar improvisations. Each features successively recorded left- and right-channel guitars, in which the overdub responds asynchronously to the original. While Open City explored the electroacoustic interplay afforded by the two-guitar and drums line-up, in New Bodies, his first solo release, Kolovos lets rip with all the skronk and blurt hes been holding in for the last decade, in tiny, tightly gated segments. His sound vocabulary is very broad, and his control of texture and timing is masterful. Using equalisation, reverb, envelope shaping and volume control... He rapidly opens and closes the volume window on a dizzying series of extended guitar techniques, creating the inescapable impression of Derek Bailey covering The Residents Duck Stab. If that wont sell records, I dont know what will. This electrifying effect is enhanced by the crisp digital recording and the superb Dubplates and Mastering pressing job - every clang and buzz is right up in your grill. Released on Kolovoss own imprint, the packaging continues the good work. The cover features a magnificent photograph of the guitarist taken by Joyce Campbell using the mid-19th century tin type process, which requires a sitting of over three minutes. The resulting image is as physically time based as the recording it encloses, and has the distinctive look of a Victorian death mask - no posing or even facial expression is possible. In this regard the cover is an exact metaphor of the recording - what you perceive is exactly what you get." - Bruce Russell, The Wire August 2009 |
| Artist: OPEN CITY Title: The Birth of Cruel Format: CD Label: Thin Wrist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |