Alex Delivery - Star Destroyer

Think Can or Faust all mashed up with the personal disco of Arthur Russell.   ·Think of the electric organ of Terry Riley's ‘Shri Camel’, slowly morphing and perpetually in motion, but remaining in step with a guitar-less and Moroder-charged Sparks.   Think of a more composed Dead C, where Michael Morley sings about Big Thunder Mountain while holding a beach ball in one hand and fending off the digital shards of musique concrète humming around his ears with the other.  Alex Delivery have gleefully exposed their myriad gifts and influences with their debut full-length ‘Star Destroyer’, almost two years in the making.   ·On it the New York-based quintet have demonstrated their penchant for the electro-organic, seamlessly blending the sharp and gentle, like a chain-gang draped in organza. You can hear the chattering of insects resonating from the inside of a kettle drum, and you can imagine this colossal robo-beast wobbling and waltzing down an abandoned carnival boardwalk. Sylphs soar across strings, occasionally descending to enjoy some wiggle-worthy poly-rhythms. These and many more colorful characters have climbed aboard the ‘Star Destroyer’. ·‘Star Destroyer’ was self-recorded and mixed by the band and mastered at West West Side with Alan Douches.·The album artwork is taken from six oil paintings made by Kandelaki. ·"And now for something completely different. Something electro-organic. Something vaguely redolent of ... Trail Of Dead jamming with Faust and Arthur Russell. Alex Delivery are an NYC-based five-piece specialising in krautrock, space rock, digital dance and musique concrete, either at once or in sequence: their songs-cum-cosmic travelogues are blurry blends, one genre slowly morphing into the next like a time-lapse photograph. If anything, ‘Star Destroyer’ is like listening to Radio 3 at 1am with your head underwater and your stereo dipped in LSD-enriched treacle" – The Guardian.

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