THE
TELESCOPES are back with a new single on a Irish label called Trensmat.
First
off the cover is really striking as its loads of skulls in a wall but
you can see that if you look right up. It's an evil wall.....Very dark.
Musically it's also quite dark with bits of Spacemen 3, Suicide,
Fuxa and even Stereolab in
there. But Stereolab
may be misleading as this is considerably darker than
anything I've ever heard by the post jazz moogsterkins. It's the moog
you
see. The bassline drives and thunders along ten to the dozen making an
eerie
hellish soundscape with all sorts of shenanigans going on in the
background. Yet it's infinitely listenable. The list of instruments on
this single is frightening...... therimins, bowed acoustic guitars,
fooger
moogers (I want one!), electronic bass, banjo skin with mallets, penny
whistles... you name
it. The best (and most evil) driving music I've heard in ages.
Love this record? Hate it? Tell us.
What their label says...
The Telescopes open proceedings for Trensmat with an EP of free drone audio druidry. Side 1 contains the seven and a half minute AMM meets Suicide groove of DSM-IV Axis 1:307.46 - the DSM term for Night Terrors. Side 2 builds a brilliant and atmospheric subterranean world of drone and white noise using household objects - true metal machine music.
