Description:	LP on Table Of The Elements
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Table of The Elements
	Price:	£15.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5
...according to our Phil on 31 July 2008.

I'm a bit of a fan of Belong. After 2 cracking releases here's a third one and it's one of those fancy etched clear vinyl jobbies on Table of The Elements. I bet the guy gets sick of hearing Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine in every review but then he does utilise that woozy feedback sound on every record so what can he expect? Still it's done remarkably well and anyone into MBV's hazey melodic sounding guitar feedback which loops on and on and gives you goose bumps will like this. It's fucking great to be honest. Pant wettingly great... The melodies underneath the dense layers of sound are delicate yet prevalent. They pervade your very mind until it affects your arms and makes the goose bump thing happen. Any record which does that has to be a good thing! Same Places (Slow Version) is a 1 sided only limited LP though it's more of an expensive 12" if you ask me. Interesting thing to note is Jams Plotkin has been spelt as James Plotnick on the label. I bet he's well fucked off.

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What their label says...

Table of the Elements continues to celebrate its 15th anniversary with the fifth installment in its Guitar Series Vols. 3 & 4. It’s a 12xLP romp of deviant fretnoise by some of experimental music’s most prominent players, including Christian Fennesz, Thurston Moore, and Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley. Wafting, vaporously, from the suffocating heat of New Orleans, Belong shimmers like a mirage: vaguely discernable, yet always at the edge of an unobtainable horizon. Collaborators Mike Jones and Turk Dietrich employ a singular and remarkably inscrutable studio technique (Dietrich’s remix skills extend to Nine Inch Nails’ “The Frail”) to wholly liquefy source material – here electric guitars – into wave upon breaking wave of sound. Comparisons are frequently made to William Basinski’s notorious “Disintegration Loops,” and both efforts speak to intimate loss experienced on an epic, collective, and horrific scale: 9/11 and Katrina, respectively. But while Basinski’s self-destructing loops articulate a one-way road to oblivion, Belong’s music is not only degenerative, it’s regenerative. With “Same Places (Slow Version),” Belong evinces a slow-motion transformation – plate tectonics, wired for sound. Aural mountains melt into seas; yet icy barrens yield to breathing jungles of detail. The single, sprawling track may evoke decay, dissolution and destruction, but underfoot are tendrils of inexplicable joy. Belong sings a lullaby of obliteration, and the paradox it embodies would make both Kevin Shields and Tony Conrad proud: crushing melancholia and shuddering euphoria, inexorably intertwined. "Waves of rolling white noise that inch closer and closer until it swallows us loud and whole." PITCHFORK. "Undeniably beautiful, oblique and evocative at the same time." DUSTED. “Table of the Elements [are] fearless purveyors of the wildest stuff around.” KYLE GANN (NEW YORK TIMES) Tracks : 1. Same Places (Slow Version) [14:16]