LA Vampires ft. Matrix Metals

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5...according to our Brian on Thu 25 Nov, 2010.

I proper likes this LA Vampires stuff. With the current U.S. underground climate being steadily infused with sparkling clouds of drugged, sludgy tropical pop & woozy, submerged grooves, this is Manda Beth Brown's time to shine. In a smacked-out wobbly way of course. The rhythms on this superb sounding collaboration with Matrix Metals are so beautifully balmy but all the potential sheen is sheared off with the gorgeously murky & fantastically disorientating production. It's not TOO lo-fi though. Ms. Vampire has a hazy, seductive voice that floats wantonly through the wonky casio tones & mogadon 80s electro pulses. The pace of this record is endearingly slow, yet it brings forth a kind of dreamy euphoria, the slowly cascading waves of mangled synth congregate to form the prettiest patterns and micro melodies; samples & flecks of live instrumentation are added to the meandering jumble as beats almost trip over themselves laughing on the way to the door. (they get there eventually) It sounds like a total mess but it absolutely isn't. This is brilliantly constructed, densely layered & evocative music that could probably render taking drugs redundant in the long run as you feel completely off yo' tits just lending this tasty six track wax your ears for half an hour. �

Episode two in season one of the LA Vampires Collab Chronicles finds her joining forces with elusive alien discotech-head Matrix Metals of the nomadic Outer Limits Recordings cabal. Blurry ornate cassette-loop architectures groove and grind under jazzy Casio canopies while Ms. LA Vamps screws it all down and layers in additional square wave keyboard lines, echo chamber FX, drum machine detailing, low-end throbs, and sings lead on a gold spraypainted microphone. The entire LP s got that melting-on-the-dashboard warped-world tonality of all the best Outer Limits tracks, and the fried radio-rhythm Matrix beats definitely coax out a cool hidden sunbleached LA V faux-pop vocal style not evident on any of her previous vinyl. Elaborately 4-tracked over the summer and microscopically mixed by M. Geddes Gengras, So Unreal is exactly that, and a rad synergistic statement by both parties. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with glamour-style Nagelized portrait/collage artwork by recent LA transplant/BFF Spencer Longo, plus a full-color insert. Edition of 600.

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