Glory Fckn Sun - Spectra

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4...according to our Brett on Fri 01 Aug, 2008.

Spectra is the new thing from Glory Fckn Sun who have a cool name and make cool noises like some cool Japanese noise people are haunting a cool house. It's not that abrasive or loud and it's all the better for it, making pictures in your mental movie mind like you're trapped in there with them while the shutters and doors bang, the glass shatters and your pants brown. Actually, this'd sound totally amazing as the soundtrack to the ship sequence in Nosferatu now that I come to think of it, it's totally ghost ship. Expect clatterings, drones and distant sounding percussion.. Maybe a little in the vein of a darker Set Fire to Flames. Phil reckons it'll go down well with the Not Not Fun crowd, I reckon it should go down well with anybody in a perfect world, it's dead good! Nicely presented too, in a Godspeed! style untreated card sleeve and pressed on transparent red vinyl. On Tipped Bowler Tapes.

The sky done clouded over after Glory Fckn Sun's debut album, yielding this brooding and corrosive follow-up. The New Zealand sorta-super group of Antony Milton , Ben Spiers, and Simon O'Rorke concoct a slow-burning behemoth of metallic shivers and distortion churn, dark enough to invoke the dread name Haino.

Spectra is an unsettling mind-meld: Spiers desolate soundscapes bleed into Milton's heavy drones, which are complemented perfectly by O'Rorke's restless percussion. Group improvisation is the natural language of these three; even listing their solo and collaborative albums over the past decade would take way more effort than I can muster. Suffice to say this is a stellar and unique record to add to their massive discographies.

In an edition of 300 red 160 gm. vinyl records, housed in silk-screened, heavy-gauge recycled stock jackets.

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