Labels: the beta beat
Review by: Andy Malcolm
This one’s been sitting in the pile a while, got buried under a bunch of 7″ that I purchased. Anyways, lets see. This is 3 tracks of atmospheric instrumental music. It’s electronic, but it evolves much more than the stuff I listen to that is electronic. It’s veritably alive as the thick bass sound spills out of my headphones and into my ears. I fear there is some kind of monster in there now. The music is melodic and there is quite a bit going on at once. It fzzt’s and pops a bit in the background, with keyboard and spacey fx all going on too. I don’t really know what to compare it to. The second track is much noisier. It’s distorted and the drums are loud and pounding on my head. Ow, stop hitting me with that drumstick, ow. It has some cool sludgey guitar rock riffs going on that if they were louder you could air guitar to. It also has some bongos I think. Woo. Finally there is a third track that fills a side, it is called “USA+Explosioner”, it starts off in a sort of post-rock fashion with smart repetetive guitar and occasional other guitar bits chiming in rather snazzily. It builds upwards and they have some brass instrumentation in there. Then it quitens down again. And more stuff happens between now and the end of the song. Woo. More interesting than that new Godspeed LP anyway.
This is an interesting 7″ all told, worth investigating if you are the investigating sort. Like a private detective or something. I bet Poirot listens to this 7″ whilst waxing his moustache.
Pointless fact: One of the labels that split release this put out the Little Milton 7″.