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01. ALTAR EAGLE - Battlegrounds
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02. ALTAR EAGLE - Honey
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03. ALTAR EAGLE - You Lost Your Neon Haze
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04. ALTAR EAGLE - B'nai B'rith Girls
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05. ALTAR EAGLE - Monsters
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06. ALTAR EAGLE - Spy Movie
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07. ALTAR EAGLE - Breakdown
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08. ALTAR EAGLE - Pour Your Dark Heart Out
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ARTIST
ALTAR EAGLE
TITLE
Mechanical Gardens
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TYPE
CATALOG #
TYPE 073CD
TYPE 073CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
9/14/2010
Brad Rose
(aka
The North Sea
) is probably the last person you'd expect to see at the helm of a pop album. A folk record -- maybe, a noise record? sure, but pop? Probably not. Yet that's exactly what he and his wife
Eden Hemming
have done with
Mechanical Gardens
. The
Altar Eagle
sound might not come as much of a shock for those cassette collectors who have managed to source copies of the duo's now-rare debut EPs, but for the rest of the world it should serve as a radical change in direction for one of experimental music's most valuable sons. The ear-splitting noise that enticed listeners on
Bloodlines
is all but forgotten as Brad and Eden pick through shimmering dream-pop and cold-wave electronics with the greatest of ease. The quality is assured within minutes of the gorgeous
Slowdive
-esque opener "Battlegrounds." Anchored by Eden's humming, ethereal vocal tones, the song is a glorious statement of intent and while the band go into clubbier directions on the second half, this song is a gateway to their sound. Possibly the biggest surprise on
Mechanical Gardens
is the sound shift which occurs mid-way through the record, as the bubbling bliss of "B'nai B'rith Girls" gives way to the abrasive electro growl of "Monsters." Influenced in part by Eden's long-time love affair with techno and Brad's recent obsession with synthesizers, the duo strike a perfect middle ground between crumbling experimentation and pop excess. This is rarely better explored than on "Spy Movie," a track that somehow combines the supposedly warring sounds of
Juan Atkins
and early
My Bloody Valentine
. On
Mechanical Gardens
, Brad and Eden have created an album that revels in its grab-bag of influences, but somehow they have managed to emerge with a sound that is totally singular. It's pop music for sure, but un-cynical, atypical and hugely enjoyable.
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