Description:	Split 7" on Skinny Wolves
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental Indie
	Label:	Skinny Wolves
	Price:	£4.99
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...according to our Brian on 07 May 2009.

Telepathe have a double header/split job out with Effi Briest. The two space ladies re-adjust EB's 'Mirror Rim' in their own imagery, lots of their signature sounds melted down to create a searching astral pop number that just makes me wanna go listen to 'Dance Mother' like never before. Now Effi Briest T've not had very good relations with before and now they've done this kind of pointless remix/cover version of 'Chromes On It', the best bits of which are just "removed" from the original. It sounds like a meandering & pointless exercise in deconstruction by people that don't quite seem to know what they're doing.

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There's one thing we can say for sure about the six women of EFFI BRIEST: they stand in no one's shadow. The "Long Shadow" of their second single for Loog Records is most certainly the shadow that they cast, the one that lesser bands will be attempting to escape for a long time to come. It's a monster, people—a force ten gale careening into your listening space on one of the most propulsive beats this side of the late great Klaus Dinger (a motorik march?), annihilating everything in its path with sinister panache and a dive-bombing drum-exciter guitar solo that has to be heard to be believed. After such musical devastation, all that remains is for side B's "Phoenix" to rise from the proverbial ashes and blot out the dying sun with its fiery wingspan. The band has been extremely busy in the last year or so working on a full-length while supporting their debut single for Loog, "MIRRORIM" b/w "The Newlyweds Song," whether on tour in California with Sunburned Hand of the Man, playing San Francisco's Mission Creek Festival or LA's Arthur Nights, acting as house band for New York's Deitch Projects, slaying crowds at the Roundhouse in London, the Festival for Les Inrockuptibles in Paris, or on opening night of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival. And the press has taken notice, with features appearing in the NME, Uncut, Fader, Plan B, Pitchfork, The Guardian, and The Village Voice, among others. It's safe to say there's a new girl in town. Her name is EFFI and she's taking over. EFFI BRIEST is Kelsey Barrett (Vocals, Keyboard), Elizabeth Hart (Bass), Corinne Jones (Drums), Rebecca Squires, (Accordion, Clarinet) Sara Shaw (Guitar) and Jessica Stathos (Percussion). ABOUT TELEPATHE Melissa Livaudis and Busy Gangnes were part of First Nation and Bloodlines respectively. Telepathe started as a side project for these groups. With its first line up of rotating members, the band’s debut release, the ‘Farewell Forest’ EP is a dense as the current incarnation, but was made by a full band in the expected set up. Their Sinister Militia’ 12 inch, recorded with the current line up (including semi-permanent guitar hired gun Ryan Lucero) is the bridge to how they sound now: synthetic ambience without full-blown machine beat. But it wasn’t until recently that they hate jamming and gave it up for the hectic commotion of technology. ‘Chrome’s On It’ a song that splashes with pitch-shifted Mannie Fresh beat syncopation, low tones and stuttered snare is their most immediately striking song, but only because it’s the least subtle. Livaudis says she was listening to an old Cash Money instrumentals CD the week before they made it. Their music has more in common with the do-it-yourselfness of self taught beatmaker Soulja Boy than former tourmates !!!. But were they to reply solely on their hip-hop influence, they’d be a lot limper. Their ‘Crimes and Killings’ may begin simply with sub-bass, but it keeps going with digitized electronic wind and the half spoken, half sung call ‘Let’s go make out in the snow,I’ll fuck you up you ought to know.’ The seven minute song is a musical triptych with distinct movements threaded togther with backwards hi-hat hitting and snare strokes. Gangnes and Livaudis’ voices are ever present throughout, seamlessly dubbed together, and that unified call is at once plainly lush and and undeniably creepy. There’s so much in so many genres happening at once that it feels like an experiment in pastiche and overload. Their woman-meets-machine mishmash is present throughout their forthcoming Dave Sitek-produced album ‘Dance Mother’. “We’re making a specific lifestyle choice which I feel is political, says Gangnes towards the end of one of our conversations. And although she follows that up by saying “I didn’t know what I was going to say as I said that,” its vital that they even think about the tangled implications of being two women in a band backed by drum machines. “People will be like ‘Will you please sing on my beat’ and its like, Dude, we make our own beats,’” says Livaudis. “There’s no smoke and mirrors!’ she says. “Anyone can do this.” And Telepathe certainly did. So while maybe it was just a matter of tatse and convenience that Livaudis put down their instruments in favor of the LCD glare of a computer screen, it also made for a big boom and it made a better band. "Telepathe give us a glimpse of a pop future that confidently fuses kraut jams, urban beats and Gang Gang Dance-style rhythms into a hypnotic, droning whole. If this is the sound of what's to come, then we certainly have something to look forward to." - Drowned In Sound