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Recommended by us on 13th May 2011
...according to our Mike on Thu 12 May, 2011.
Well, this is a pretty wild-looking record. It's packaged in a fold-out 'pyramid sleeve', which seems a bit gimmicky to me, but it's very nice to look at...although what impresses me most isn't the unusual shape but how vivid the colours are. A veritable party for the eyes. The band contains members of Arp, Tarentel and Troll. Musically this is an engaging piece of psychedelia, sometimes soothing with tasteful and conventional arrangements, but then throwing in some experimental elements, too, with drones and repetitive melodies being grazed and battered by electronic scrapes and flutters. It's very immersive, though, and the ideas are well focused and concise. Like, if you got this record out while you were doobing it up with people whose taste you weren't familiar with, you could be pretty confident that it'd make them go, "What's this? I like this." Yeah, drugs music, basically, but good drugs music.
Blending folk music with electronics and a vibe like sunshine pouring raisins down on you from the heavens, San Francisco’s The Alps are America’s premiere morning musicians. Put on something like “Spray,” from their latest full-length Easy Action, into your wake-up routine, daylight peeking out over the trees and buildings, an abundance of noise and effects co-existing around stern acoustic folk guitar melodies, traditions smashing against one another like metaphysical Japanese monsters to make room for more skies and visible horizons in your life. Featuring Alexis Georgeopolous (Arp), Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (Tarantel) and Scott Hewicker (Troll), the Alps make music that is made to move the mountains in your mind, and help you to take some time for yourself, out of focus from the rest of the world, and think about what you can do today to make the world better.
Today & Tomorrow
Spray
Pink Orange
For Isabel
Side B
Loves of a Blonde
Easy Action
Violet Hour
Reflections For Peter Green
Instant Light
Until Tomorrow
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