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This is ok actually - It's on K Records who I am happy are still releasing records. Its lo fidelity guitar stuff that doesn't really recall anyone - a bit of early TV on the Radio here a bit of The Microphones (esp. Mt Eerie) there. Atmospheric guitars, pounding drums, pleading chanting vocals. The B side has some absurd vocal effects which always cheers me up. They've put the drums through some kind of effects which makes them all big and that. I like this. The B side sounds strangely like the A side. Oh......oh it is the same song but a different version. Silly old me.
City Center was born in the headphone space of a Brooklyn bedroom. Shelved between boredom, loneliness, and every available corner of the audible spectrum, Fred Thomas and Ryan Howard make music that is both playful and shy -- that teen Halloween feeling. Now rooted in Michigan, City Center continues to unravel their everexpanding landscape of warmly washed-out psychedelia -- creating a blurry canvas of images: an endless sun, a lavish diamond tattoo across the chest, and a pile of orca bones on the beach. While touring across the country, Fred and Ryan stopped for a few days in Olympia, Washington to groove-out a solid-action 7" 45 rpm record for K (who also put out Thomas' last full length album from Saturday Looks Good to Me). "Zen Kids" [DBN117] splinters guitars and chillingly desolate drones until it forms as a soft summery pop song. As with all singles in the Dub Narcotic Disco Plate series, just fl ip the record and Selector Dub Narcotic scrambles and reforms it,"Version" style. “City Center is Fred Thomas’ (of Saturday Looks Good to Me & Lovesick fame) new outfit, and dare we say it’s the best thing he’s ever done/been a part of… the headspace they occupy is filled with epic, sky-scraping songwriting that gets filtered and FX’d into a gorgeous, blessed-out oblivion … [They make] headphone music of the highest order. As long as you’ve got a comfy chair, you can ride with them into the candy-coated abyss.” The Tripwire.
2 songs: side a: zen kids / side b: zen kids version
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