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ARTIST
TITLE
Greatest Heads
FORMAT
LP

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CATALOG #
LSSN 101LP LSSN 101LP
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RELEASE DATE
9/19/2025

"Greatest Heads is the fourth album by the radical Basque-Berlinesque group Al Karpenter. A deconstruction of structured 'rock' music, here Al Karpenter re-imagine 'the band' to explore the intersection between free music, Afro-beat, the avant garde and gonzo rock. Álvaro Matilla, Marta Sainz, Enrique Zaccagnini, and Mattin's response to the planet's slipping into a vortex of hate is to create a music ecstatic, a music of protest bursting with multiple musical languages and glossaries, full of overlapping histories and thrilling tensions. Greatest Heads posits a plurality of musics both in opposition and intertwined: Al Karpenter play rock instruments pulled apart in the studio in post-production. Distorted rhythm chunks bit-crushed and dissipated, segments of freedom oppressed by waves of sound invading from every direction. The interplay between the chief instrumentalists and renowned, storied sound artist Mattin creates something akin to ESP freedom-seekers Cro Magnon playing in Miles Davis' early '70s groups, The Los Angeles Free Music Society tightening up into a clenched fist of plunderphonics and runaway percussion. The modulating synth sound soon sucks the band into its wake to create a spine-chilling climax of distorted sound, made fully orgasmic with mastering engineer Rashad Becker's attention to detail. The band's cascading layers of references and polyglottal musics attempt to create the perfect lover, alive with rage and disorientating ecstasy: Al Karpenter."