Keep An Eye Out!, by Stephen O'Malley (LP on Table of The Elements)

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This record left our Brett feeling ecstatic.

Table of the Elements make lovely things, don't they? I've always wanted to take on of their etched, single-sided things home to touch but none have ever quite hit me in the face and demanded it.. Apart from the John Fahey ones and I was too slow on the uptake for those. So here's another one in that guitar series thing, this time featuring Stephen O'Malley of Sunn0))) fame and Southern Lord label boss infamy, called 'Keep An Eye Out!' As you might expect, it's one drone piece marked out by what seems to be a distinct lack of guitar, as far as I can make out there's probably some sort of buried six-string moodyness underneath but it's really all about the wheezing accordian, which gives the strongest suggestion of some sort of melody, and the funereal organ drone underpinning it all. It's the way the elements feed in and out that's the really satisfying thing, like it's all being put through a generator being powered by a candle in its flickering death throes. Proper atmospheric stuff. If I saw this live I'd be fairly disappointed if it wasn't accompanied by disconcertingly looping visuals of some silent horror film or other. Quality.. I might just have one of these.

What the label says about Keep An Eye Out!, by Stephen O'Malley:

Table of the Elements continues to celebrate its 15th anniversary with the tenth installment in its Guitar Series Vols. 3 & 4. It’s a 12xLP romp of deviant fretnoise by some of experimental music’s most prominent players, including Christian Fennesz, Thurston Moore, and Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley. Sunn O))) founder Stephen O’Malley summons a mesmerizing drone, absorbing the listener into an aural tar pit of deep, inexorable oblivion. He wears a cloak of post-metal allegiances with behemoths like Earth, but beneath that, there is a vibrant body of work that owes as much to the heady minimalism of Tony Conrad and Steve Reich. Constantly pushing at the extremes of volume and duration, O’Malley’s sound is a physical phenomenon, infused with an intimidating power – and possessing, at its core, an oddly meditative tranquility. “The supremacy of Table of the Elements for the past decade as an unwavering outpost of ultra-experimental strains can be attributed to its concomitant adherence to valiance. Most of the Table of the Elements catalogue has no broad commercial appeal, and many of its projects – scores for films directed by early-60s Conrad associate Jack Smith or a 3xCD box set by an unknown two-guitars-and-drums trio from Atlanta – are risky ventures, even with respect to the experimental marketplace. Yet, this philosophy of risk works because everyone associated with the label feels like they're doing important work releasing important records, and they're willing to go for broke to make it happen.” PITCHFORK / “Table of the Elements [are] fearless purveyors of the wildest stuff around.” KYLE GANN (NEW YORK TIMES) / Tracks : 1. Keep an Eye Out

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