Mi Ami - Echononecho

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5...according to our Brett on Wed 21 Jan, 2009.

A new Touch & Go 12" is a thing that still gets my radar erected after all these years and Mi Ami have one out called 'Echononecho' which is highly satisfactory. The lead track doesn't sound too dissimilar to their old band (Black Eyes), being a highly percussive ten minute dubby-punk-funk voyage complete with shrieking female post-punker vocals that's gone down a right treat here in the office. Unlike the backdoor explosion Brian's just unleashed on us all. Honestly, it's like working with your head inside a toilet in here sometimes.. I guess this kind of takes the 'improvisational disco' notion of Dinosaur L and filters it through a sieve made from modern experimental rock. The flip side takes the echoey spaciness of the first and versions it up dubwise in fine style. Burnin'. Note: Apparently it isn't a girl singing at all. I am stupid.

· San Francisco based trio Mi Ami find their strength in
restraint, while remaining enthrallingly chaotic. Featuring
two key members of hyper-percussive Black Eyes, Mi
Ami build on the promise of Black Eyes’ spastic
energy and renowned live performances, but steers
it into a more focused, volatile, and personal direction.
· Mi Ami’s work starts at the foundation of dance
music, deconstructing and rebuilding it,
disassembling and reanimating it. The band’s
relentless disco rhythms are an organic base that frees
up everyone’s playing.
· Side A, the title track, is flush with yelping vocals, a
wailing guitar and bubbling basslines. Shadowy
noises are layered into the mix with plenty of echo and
reverb to create a cosmic airspace.
· Side B, ‘Version’, is an exercise in subversion and
editing. A remix of the title track, it is rapturously eerie,
bending the already twisted frame of the A side, as the
yelps of the original take on an even more galactic
vastness amid a cavern of sound.