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LP
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SCTR 040LP
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"Dylan Golden Aycock is part of the new generation of guitar pickers young enough to first have been influenced by early volumes of Tompkins Square Records' Imaginational Anthem series and then to be anthologized on a later one. The Oklahoma native is on Volume 7, should you feel like looking, playing an early version of 'Red Bud Valley,' which sits in the middle of the B-side of the LP under consideration here. Aycock's composing on Church Of Level Track offers evidence that he's well studied in a lineage of American Primitive pickers that stretches back decades before he was born. 'Lord It Over' puts it right out there by opening with a double-thumbed bass line right out of John Fahey's bag of tricks. But this quotation is merely an opening gambit, and one that is quickly followed by moves that prove Aycock is no parrot but a bird with his own song to sing. The steel guitar that sails in over his picking evokes first the bucolic playfulness of Jim O'Rourke's Bad Timing and then keeps going back into the deep back shelves of country-rock lyricism. At the same time a virtual band (Aycock plays everything on the track and nearly everything on the LP) sets up a subtle undertow of entropic drumming and echo-laden feedback. . . ." --Bill Meyer (Dusted Magazine, Chicago Reader)
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