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I had a dream last night that I owned a rabbit and I went away for the weekend and forgot to feed it. When I got back it had been forced to eat its own ears. So is it just a coincidence that I get the new Sore Eros album to review? (boom boom!). Its currently playing and what I'm thinking about is this:- isn't The Wire's so called 'hypnagogic' pigeon-hole just a euphemism for 'badly recorded'? As I've said a billion times before its much much easier to hide music in shards of hiss and distortion rather than to just write decent fucking songs in the first place. It strikes me on first listen that Sore Eros aren't really that good. The album is appallingly recorded, vocals are annoyingly flat throughout, instrumentation rudimentary and songs are non existent. They faff about with the vocals effects a bit and wander off into experimental cul de sacs so that presumably makes the whole venture ok. I may be proved embarrassingly wrong on repeated plays as there are shards of hope on 'Make it Louder' where the fog clears and they inject some melody into the thing but the initial impression is rather disappointing.
Second album of amazing pop from Sore Eros, a split label release, limited vinyl pressing on SHDWPLY, and CD pressing on AGITATED; With Know Touching, Sore Eros have crafted a record that is simultaneously dense and soothingly melodic, fulfilling the considerable promise of their debut, 2009 s Second Chants. For this record, the band (Robert Robinson and Adam Langellotti) made a conscious departure from its debut, recording the album direct to a ½ inch 8 track reel-to-reel without the aid of computers. From this the band emerged with a record that blooms with melody and innocent joy that bring to mind such similarly spaced out artists as Atlas Sound and Kurt Vile. When patched together, this detailed attention to arrangement and dreamy melodic sensibilities combine to make Know Touching an effortlessly beautiful record. People said a lot of the songs [on Second Chants] sounded like I was singing from a room down the hall, this time we wanted it to sound like I was whispering in your ear. This began to give the record a little bit of a creepy feel, however Adam'sarrangements on the record countered that creepiness with more of a playful and innocent feel" - Robert FIRST 500 CDs come with a bonus disc, featuring 25 minutes of exclusive material.
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