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Tarentel:
We Move Through Weather
We Move through Weather is the most recent album on the Temporary Residence label by Tarentel, a San Francisco band known for playing tight, slowly developed, rhythmically driven epic-length instrumentals. While the group hasn't strayed outside this basic frame, the forms these tracks take will surprise those who follow the band. Where on previous releases Tarentel might anchor the rhythmic and thematic movement of a piece in a tightly-wound, interplaying guitar line, here we get heavy, off-kilter percussion that stumbles forward, as delirious drones and lost melodic elements drift in and out of surprisingly chaotic sound collages. While Tarentel has always dabbled in some amount of experimentation, they have never applied the improvisational brush so broadly as this. The whole album features healthy doses of improvised instrument, tape-manipulation and found sound elements, which often take center stage over the more traditional rock instruments. The effect of all this fooling around with format is really effective. The unique mix of stuttering percussion, tense guitar lines, slowly moving thematic progressions and harsh atmospherics makes a collage of sound that feels like a deconstruction of Tarentel's previous efforts. The tracks often seem broken or devolving, entropy finding its way into the cracks of the perfect post-rock compositions. The album as a whole evokes everything from the uncaring unpredictability of natural disaster to a sense of post-homeland security spies-in-the-wires dread. Or maybe its just bad weather. In any case, it's a different sound for Tarentel, and it works.
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