I think the record that's taken me most this week is the outstanding LP by Minus Pilots on the Panic Arrest label. This is a new UK label which seems to have some good stuff on the horizon. They just release albums on 180 gram vinyl so I'm taken from the off. The sleeve did it for me 'n all what with it's weird little forest monsters which aren't a million miles away from the art in Princess Mononoke (top film!). The music itself is just bass guitar, tape recorders and some electronics. I'm totally moved by this record It's absolutely gorgeous!! Think some of the lighter moments of Rothko crossed with William Basinski and the earlier more weird Loren Mazzacane Connors. There's loads of vinyl crackles all over the record which give it that warmth. It's just a whole album chocka full of warm meandering atmospherics. Just listening to it then I got stuck in some sort of weird trance and forgot what I was doing. Man, this record takes you somewhere else and spits you out as an exhausted mess in a different dimension. Stick with it though as it's not particularly obvious on first listen but I've been obsessively playing this all week and can't leave it alone. Superior Proof Of Cinema is LP only and is completely fucking sexy! Have a listen here: myspace.com/minuspilots
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What their label says...
Superior Proof of Cinema blends degraded electronics, electric bass and ageing cassette tape recorders into a sensitive yet menacing whole. The album has a full span of emotion, perfectly paced with subtle and deep textures offering an engaging journey across the borders into minimalist, drone, static and circuit breaking electronics.
TRACK LISTING 1. Twin Screens Fail 2. Cluster & Arc 3. These Frontiers Can Kill 4. Dusk Carries Control 5. This Distance Was Never Close 6. V Sun Might Listen
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