DALTHOM - Forced Exposure

Last Updated 04/25/2024 07:53 PM EDT

LOG IN
CART

Cart Items :

Sub Total :

New Releases

Labels

Jobs

DALTHOM 1 Title

Dalthom is the duo of Massachusetts natives Greg Dalton and Robert Thomas. Dalton began gigging and self-issuing recordings under the name Gary War in the late '90s and subsequently released a string of underground psych LPs and EPs on various labels (Spectrum Spools, Upset! The Rhythm, Sacred Bones) and has toured the project extensively in recent years. Thomas was a founding member of the psychedelic improvisational group Sunburned Hand of the Man who, after forming in 1996, released a slew of albums, toured heavily and were touted as early progenitors of the scene dubbed "New Weird America" and "Freak Folk" by the music press of the early '00s. Frame Slip is the first release by the duo who have spent the past several years collaborating on elaborate recordings crafted over multiple extended sessions of hyper-focused tracking, editing and mixing. Dalton brought the sessions to New Zealand where additional vocals were rendered by Clementine Nixon (of the ethereal New Zealand duo Purple Pilgrims) and drums were added by the cryptic Kiwi artist known as Kraus. All attempts have been made to create an evocative and modern tapestry of ever morphing mood and sound flow to engage and elevate the open minded listener.


Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #

DALTHOM	Frame Slip	LP	FEEDING TUBE RECORDS	FTR 233LP
$18.50 IN STOCK "Thrilling second album by the duo made up of Greg (Gary War) Dalton and Rob (Sunburned Hand of the Man) Thomas. The first album was recorded and pressed a while ago but has yet to be actually released. Perhaps because these guys are operating under Nigel Senada's Theory of Obscurity (see The Residents' Not Available). Or perhaps not. Only time will tell. Regardless, this sophomore effort is nothing but a goddamn corker. Knowing something about the work ethic of this pair, I had suspected this LP would be filled to the bong-lip with loosely unstructured jams and zingers. And while those elements are indeed part of the parcel, they are mere details in a large, richly varied and luminous whole. Dalton brings his multi-various musical New Zealand ex-pat weirdnesses to the party, and Thomas draws deeply on his intense Massachusetts record collector powers to create tunes and bridges and sighs that make sonic images skip across the surface of your brain like the smoothest stone on the planet. The two conjure up all the sounds on their lonesome, apart from some drum bits by New Zealand form-manster, Kraus, and some background vocals by fellow kiwi Clementine of Purple Pilgrims fame. You can hear twinges of all kinds of heavy cult tunage smeared into the corners -- a bit of Hoelderlin here, a smudge of Relatively Clean Rivers there -- but what it most recalls are the highest echelon exploit-o drug-powered records like LSD Underground 12 or The Happening by Fire & Ice Ltd. As a piece of music it's as thoroughly toasted as either of those, managing to be higher key and low-key at same time. Pretty fuggin' brilliant. Let's hope the other album gets cut loose soon!" -- Byron Coley, 2016. Edition of 300.