Pete Fosco - Crescent Avenue

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 15 Oct, 2009.

Pete Fosco has had a couple of release out before on Digitalis and the Reverb Worship label. Here's a new one on Dead Pilot which is packaged in a lush digipak with holes cut out of the artwork. Well nice! Inside the sleeve is a nice bit of blue paper with a cool pattern on which pokes through the holes. Suddenly the need for holes is making sense. Pete is a guitarist and on this 2 track epic (42 mins in total) you get some long drawn out drone pieces which are more interesting than most. There's quite a lot going on in these with weird looping guitar riffage and some mental noises which sound like they've been made on other bits of a guitar i.e not the strings. Its strangely hypnotic and it makes me think of some of the stuff Peter Wright has done. Very arresting indeed. 'Crescent Ave' is CD only on the Dead Pilot label (100 only!)

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Pete Fosco comes to Dead Pilot after releases on Reverb Worship and the fantastic Digitalis Limited cassette range.

Crescent Avenue is made up of 2 tracks. Western Ave. I and Western Ave. II. Western Ave. I is a 32 minute dirge through volcanic rumbling tones, with semi-psychedelic licks and swells and delicate melodic passages floating in and out of the clouds. It's quite dense and heavy in places but it never gets too bleak; there is always a nagging hopeful airy-ness throughout the piece. Western Ave. II is eerie and dark, with twisted riffs and distorted memories fighting to break free; and when they finally do, it's chaotic but engaging and brilliant. As the track dies out, you can't help but feel moved in a peculiar way.

Limited to 100 copies, hand stamped in new card digipaks with 4 circular holes hinting at the artwork.

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