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Recommended by us on 23rd June 2011
...according to our Phil on Thu 23 Jun, 2011.
This is a doozy! Brooklyn based duo Winter Family release their third album on Alt Vinyl. Never heard of them before so it's always interesting checking out a new artist you've not heard before. It's a sprawling opus spread over 2 albums of weird dreamscapes. The music is weird drones and synths, tinkles, piano and all manner of strange noises and sounds coupled with echoey strange vocals spoken over them. It's kind of eerie yet beautiful at the same time. It's like drifting in and out of consciousness as I've heard it a couple of times and I drift in and out of listening to various bits of it. You get strangely absorbed into it and before you know it another side has finished... It makes you feel like you're sleeping almost though you know you're awake. There's hints of Sun City Girls in there and something else I can't quite think of. A thoroughly intense and interesting record which isn't really like anything else I've heard before. It features Norsala from Godspeed too. Nice!
a rare and unique audio worldview expressed by the singular approach of brooklyn based duo ruth rosenthal (spoken words) and xavier klaine (harmonium, organ etc..). from the first bares of searching donkeys this double album creates a glowering and intense atmospheric...part nightmare, part uplifting dreamscape it permeates and builds into a compelling whole. a reference point might be some of the output of constellation records - indeed GYBEs norsola johnson plays on this record..however it is doubtful whether any of those artists ever produced anything to match the taut tension of the title track red sugar..a spoken hymn to absence. the ambition of winter family is evident on the expansive, orchestral epic dancing in the sun..crank your speakers, sit back and open your mind..it WILL blow you away. as an entirety this album builds on previous releases on marienbad and sub rosa and demonstrates that rarest of things..a unique voice..once heard never forgotten. essential.
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