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Fades: Sounds Pressed into Texture
I'm inclined to call Sounds Pressed into Texture an ambient garage rock album. I know that sounds like a contradiction, but I'm too hooked on creating ridiculous labels to drop it. I enjoyed listening to this album, though I don't really know why. At first, I thought that many of the songs sound like almost typical garage rock songs. The strange thing is that they don't have any lyrics (this is an entirely instrumental album). It's as if you're listening to an album and you go: "Hey, where are the lyrics?" The guitars crank out scratchy and distorted riffs that range from being happy and catchy to being weird and dissonant. The guitarist utilizes an e-bow remarkably which furthers the ambient, wave-like qualities of the album. The drummer sounds like he is creating a simple beat most of the time, though sometimes he adds flourishes and plays weird tricks with the cymbals. There's also at least one point on the album where he starts banging on what sounds like a bunch of pots and pans. Eventually, you tend to stop paying complete attention to Sounds Pressed into Texture and just sort of lose yourself in the music. The whole album starts to feel like a wave washing over you and engulfing you. At only seventeen minutes, it's quite easy to let this one play on repeat many, many times and never tire of it. I know I did. And at some point, I suppose you start realize that this album isn't all that typical after all. In the end, I think Sounds Pressed into Texture is one of those albums that is pointless to talk about for too long. You just have to listen to it and experience it. In closing, what else can I say? I don't really know what ambient garage rock is, and yet I can safely say that this is the album that ambient garage rock fans have been waiting for.
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