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loud-fans-digest         Sunday, May 27 2007         Volume 07 : Number 124



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  Re: [loud-fans] Recent Recs                           [zoom@muppetlabs.com]

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Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 14:02:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: zoom@muppetlabs.com
Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Recent Recs

> Parts & Labor, _Mapmaker_ (Jagjaguwar)
> On the Andy Partridge remix album _The Lure of Salvage_ there's a track
> called "Steam Fist Futurist," in which drum loops and god knows what found
> and repurposed sounds are tweaked until they sound (to me) like a bunch of
> retro automatons running amok in a power plant. Parts & Labor sound to me
> like a band whose musical vocabulary was profoundly influenced by "Steam
> Fist Futurist," but who also love pop hooks. Like last year's _Stay
> Afraid_,
> _Mapmaker_'s sound is hissy and trebly, but the band excavates
> surprisingly
> catchy melodies from the noise. They sound nothing like the first Jesus
> and
> Mary Chain album, but the relationship of noise to hooks might be similar.
> Or that might be stressing a metaphor. Anyway, this album roolz.

Richard Youngs makes his home (mostly) at Jagjaguwar, so this one caught
my eye. Liked the MAPMAKER sound samples at Amazon; did you notice the
very Eno-like vocals, especially on "Brighter Days" and "Knives and
Pencils"?

The sun will shine,

Andy


"I dreamed my genesis in sweat of death, fallen
Twice in the feeding sea, grown
Stale of Adams brine until, vision
Of new man strength, I seek the sun."

- --Dylan Thomas

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