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Another release from Ecstatic Peace! is The Sunburned with "Z", aka The Sunburned Hand of the Man. Five tracks denoted by repeated symbols and a sound that encapsulates freeform noise/rock. For the uniniated: there's no songs or traditional song structures, instead what you get is a drifting improvised melding of intertwining guitars and some shamanistic grunts and wailing, feedback grinding against what sounds like industrial machinery and all manner of sound contrast.“The music leaves one with a sense of sombre contentment and satisfaction as mysterious in origin as the warmth received from the open-hand greeting of a stranger” – Pitchfork.·“Z’ is about infinity and the double dimension we all live in yet don’t fully understand. ‘Z’ is the sound of that feeling you get when you think you’re being watched or followed by the omnipotent one. ‘Z’ is for believers and followers of the ‘Ecstatic Truth’ that fuels this mysterious universe. ‘Z’ has always existed and here is is as remembered and transferred solid by the people under the sun, The Sunburned” – John Moloney, Sunburned.·“Formed from the still smoldering embers of an outfit called Shit Spangled Banner sometime in 1997, the collective known as Sunburned Hand Of The Man have been steadily creating a buoyant musical stone soup ever since. The group’s shambolic music occupies the not so spacious vortex between suburban ennui and its resultant emotional release. There’s no faulty hack-n-wheeze umpteenth generation windbag hippy shit here – this is vision, not revision” – Dusted.
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