ARTIST...: Rites Wild
TITLE....: Ways Of Being
YEAR.....: 2012
LABEL....: Not Not Fun
CAT.NO...: NNF244
GENRE....: Electronic
TIME.....: 40:13 min
SIZE.....: 92.21 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint-Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2012/11/13
WEBSITE..: http://boomkat.com
TRACKLIST
01) (03:45) Ways Of Being
02) (03:27) Ill Health
03) (03:48) Thieves
04) (04:12) Detached Living
05) (02:48) Make Plans
06) (03:27) Seasonal Shine
07) (03:48) Work Ethic
08) (04:08) Rites Wild Theme
09) (03:51) Minimal Where
10) (03:30) Signs
11) (03:29) Deep Ocean Sands
Not Not Fun must be like some kind of electro-magnet for weirdy lo-fi synth types, as
they've manage to dig up yet another one in Adelaide's Stacey Wilson aka Rites Wild.
After a slew of self-released EPs "Ways of Being" is Wilson's debut full-length, and
quickly makes a case for her doomy, low-lit minimalism. There are songs in there
somewhere, but Wilson's vocals are shrouded in overdrive and reverb to the point
where it sounds almost as if she's beaming them in from just beyond the black
rainbow. Like a deathly fusion of pre-rawk Religious Knives and a melted cassette
copy of Silent Servant's recent heavy-hitter "Negative Fascination", "Ways of Being"
has no trouble ingratiating itself to the world of basement electronics, but does so
with an almost meditative sense of calm and togetherness. In fact there are whispers
of early Popul Vuh in Wilson's almost spiritual organ ballads, and while everything
is placed behind a thick pane of cassette noise you can just make out a flicker of
transcendence in there. Gorgeous stuff.
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