From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #127 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Friday, June 1 2007 Volume 07 : Number 127 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Recent Recs [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:28:40 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Recent Recs On 5/26/07, zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote: > > > 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. If anyone's interested, today's installment of Fluxblog (www.fluxblog.org) features a track by Parts and Labor. ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #127 *******************************