Browse by Artist: ANTI-CLOCKWISE

Artist:	ANTI-CLOCKWISE
Title:	Artificial Light
Label:	3 BEADS OF SWEAT
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	3BOS 1008CD

"Anti-Clockwise is the latest name for New Zealand multi-instrumentalist Brian Crook's solo project, following his eponymously titled solo debut released on the Medication label in 1998 and a more C&W-influenced album under the moniker Bible Black in 2002. Brian has a rich and varied history in New Zealand underground music circles, but is probably best known as one half of the songwriting duo (along with his wife Maryrose) in the primordial alt-country band the Renderers. Haunted keyboard oscillations, overcaffeinated careening drumbox beats, webs of sinewy sinewave menace, undercurrents of strange noises lost down a wormhole, along with Brian's trademark languid alien-blues guitar work and his unmistakably Antipodean voice make up the veritable portable soundlab that is Artificial Light. Evocative of everything from an acutely introverted Ron Asheton to the isolationist vibe of Loren Mazzacane Connors to the psych-lasso approach of solo Wayne Rogers to noise pointillists like Wolf Eyes, as well as the entire Stomach Ache Records roster, Anti-Clockwise's songs bridge the gap between the slow, measured melancholy of the Renderers and more formless out-rock/keyboard-based experimentation proferred by such labels as Last Visible Dog and Metonymic."

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