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...according to our Mike on Wed 25 Jan, 2012.
If you take a look at the press release for this item you'll see that it's some kind of mysterious concept piece, and it's not exactly business as usual for concise indie-garage stalwarts Sic Alps. The companion pieces that cover the two sides of this record are eerie, stunted things where static hiss and flutter takes us from section to section like a radio being retuned, so the structure is somewhat ambiguous, and often the minimal kerfuffle only barely holds together any semblance of melodic direction, but then out of nowhere they'll start sounding like the Kinks for 30 seconds. This is like an entire album's worth of ideas condensed into a single piece of concrete over two sides of a 7”, or maybe like a graveyard for scrap ideas that never found a fully-formed song. This is the most experimental and challenging thing I've heard from these guys yet, and it makes for an intriguing and unsettling listen.
• Sic Alps have made a 7” record that provides a musical answer not simply for short attention spans but for the meticulous, the fastidious, the obsessed and the tormented, all of whom have something to benefit from music of all kinds, and all of whom will find their needs met at some point when they hear every bit of the scars-on-45 double-A rendition(s) called ‘Vedley’.
• ‘Vedley’ is a single to end all singles, one that never really begins or ends and doesn’t loop either, existing instead open-ended as a beam into the night sky, travelling in the deep but threadbare pockets of the infinite and never growing old.
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