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Artist:
BELONG
Title:
Common Era
Label:
KRANKY
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
KRANK 155CD
"It's been five years since the last Belong long player, as the duo works slowly to organize their sound works. Both the time invested, and the wait, have been well rewarded with this return.
Common Era
shows extraordinary progression from that first album of dense, scorched earth instrumentals, hints of a new direction having been revealed on the
Colorloss Record
EP from 2008 which contained covers of four should-have-been classics from the original psychedelic era. The new material has such common pop elements as 'songs', vocals and drum machines, but the results could hardly be called conventional and are like little else happening on the current 'scene'. The songs themselves are akin to radio transmissions received from another time and place, just as likely to be the future as the past, or even from a contemporary alternate universe. They are both passionate and dispassionate, grey yet technicolor, ghostly and palpable, distant yet immediate, grainy and focused. Upon listening these conceptual contradictions are dismissed with ease, as the recordings reveal that they fit all of these descriptors simultaneously, an extraordinary balancing act."
Artist:
BELONG
Title:
Common Era
Label:
KRANKY
Format:
LP
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
KRANK 155LP
LP version.
Artist:
BELONG
Title:
Same Places (Slow Version)
Label:
TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS
Format:
LP
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
TOE 096LP
"With
Same Places (Slow Version)
, Belong evinces a slow-motion transformation -- plate tectonics, wired for sound. Aural mountains melt into seas; yet icy barrens yield to breathing jungles of detail. The single, sprawling track may evoke decay, dissolution and destruction, but underfoot are tendrils of inexplicable joy. Belong sings a lullaby of obliteration, and the paradox it embodies would make both Kevin Shields and Tony Conrad proud: crushing melancholia and shuddering euphoria, inexorably intertwined." Pressed on etched sea-foam green vinyl, etching artwork by Savage Pencil, London 2008.
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