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Recommended by us on 5th August 2010
...according to our Business Lady on Thu 05 Aug, 2010.
Big Blood is a musical duo consisting of Caleb Mulkerin and Colleen Kinsella who play in Cerberus Shoal and Fire on Fire respectively. When they are together they do something different like making weird instrumental tapes for Cabin Floor Esoterica and the like. This looks like a proper record for real and it comes on a CD and everything so I think it's a serious thing. Details are vague but that's fine with me, I've got too much of this press release info clogging up my brain space anyway. First impressions are of a lo-fi blues slash lo-fi country folk type thing. The vocals are a hollering and the harmonies are rudimentary and fun. The guitars are picky in parts but sometimes they wail too, which is what I want to hear. Brian says it sounds a little like Fire On Fire which is a well observed observation worth noting.
much anticipated proper full length release from this wonderful maine duo after a long running string of self released cdrs & a collaborative 7inch with visitations. colleen kinsella & caleb mulkerin have been key personages of the portland / south portland sonic underground for over a decade, as members of cerberus shoal, threads, fire on fire, etc. while those groups have no doubt left an impressive body of sound, the intimacy and directness of their big blood recordings take things to a higher plane of personal expression, freed from the group mind / “serious” band trapping of their past musical outlets. here they are free to romp in their personal microverse, following whim & fantasy through the gates of acoustic transcendence. all of the off-the-cuff spontaneity, intimate home fidelity, and deep personal charms of their older releases are as present as ever, but the the duo’s scope is now focused to a crystalline clarity of vision. dead songs is as sorrowful & joyful in its mirrored symmetry as the infinite life cycle itself, flowing on cleansing waves of inner release & spirit absorption... wailing fuzzed-up garage folk anthems mesh into twisted poetic acidfolk and drift to expansive melancholic meditations of boundless depth. two voices howl, swoon, alternate & join, lyrical layers peel away endlessly, tiny amps weep in pain, crude percussion booms thunderous, and ragged, beautiful hooks unfurl straight out of the void... packaged in a suitably gorgeous full color heavy 60s style gatefold cover with clear varnish overprinting, large offset printed vellum insert, full color art labels, etc. pressed on the highest quality 180gm virgin vinyl. limited edition of 700 copies.
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