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01. THE TENSES - Howard
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02. THE TENSES - Burn
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03. THE TENSES - Dream
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04. THE TENSES - Relax
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ARTIST
TENSES, THE
TITLE
Howard
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
AUDIOMER
CATALOG #
AUDIOMER 012LP
AUDIOMER 012LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
5/13/2014
The Tenses
is a duo comprised of
Ju Suk Reet Meate
and
Jackie Oblivia
, two veterans of the weirdo art collective that is known as the
Los Angeles Free Music Society
. They also form the core of legendary experimental juggernaut
Smegma
. The LAFMS have been a singular force in DIY culture ever since the early '70s and encapsulated an endless string of projects and bands that married a sort of proto-punk with trashy guitars, avant-garde music, tape manipulations, free jazz, improv, and absurd vocalizations into a hyper-original and singular form of music. They're seen by many as the originators of noise music, and have been an immense influence on bands like
Sun City Girls
,
Merzbow
,
Wolf Eyes
,
No Neck Blues Band
, etc. The Tenses is one of the latest vessels for Ju Suk and Jackie to explore the outer realms of sound and space. Compared to the mothership that is Smegma, it is a more compact and intimate project where turntables, tape collages, distorted surf guitar and coronet are used to create elaborate, haunted atmospheres. After releases on Harbinger Sound and their own Pigface Records, The Tenses now add another chapter to their history with
Howard
, their LP on Belgian imprint audioMER.
Howard
is a mind-expanding tour de force that scrambles spoken-word deconstructions and spontaneous freak-outs into a musical non-sequitur; a strange and disorienting trip. Loops of voices from long-lost instruction movies, shortwave radio dramas that get overrun with sirens, various non-instrumental sounds, and a bewildering stretch of
Link Wray
-like guitar riffs;
Howard
is a record that oozes paranoia, the perfect soundtrack for making explosives in your basement. Comes in a limited edition of 300 copies with artwork by
Wouter Vandevoorde
and design by
Wouter Vanhaelemeesch
and
Jeroen Wille
.
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