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Dan Friel
Sunburn
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.date Oct-02-2004
.style Electronic
.label Velocirecords
.cat.no. n/a
.source CDDA
.type Album
.quality 192kbps 44.1hz Full Stereo
.size 26,10 MB
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Dan Friel is a member of the experimental rock band Parts & Labor and he
is also most definitely some sort of mad scientist. On his first
self-released effort, he has put together an album comprised from a bank
of instruments that someone could probably string together for under 100
dollars. Daisy-chaining together toy keyboards, remote control car
joysticks, walkie talkies, a guitar, and some pedals, he has created a
lo-fi beast of an album that relies on distortion as much as it does
melodies to grab your ear.
And actually, grabbing your ear might be a polite term for things, as
most of the tracks on the Sunburn EP tend to wrangle your ear, wrestle
it to the ground, then sizzle it with a white-hot branding iron. While
his full-time band has been compared to Lightning Bolt, this solo work
by Dan Friel is in a category of all it's own. I guess you could call it
demented casio-noise pop, but it's a bastard-child of so many things
that it becomes hard to pin down. The disc opens with "Dead Batteries"
and as the title suggests, the track not only realizes a lo-fi keyboard
melody run through loads of distortion and compression pedals, but the
effect dying batteries has on its output. The result is a track with a
fairly simply melody that bleeds at the edges from being pushed to the
sonic limits while a repetitive rhythm (also hammered into the red)
keeps things banging along.
From there out, the album continues the assault on the upper registers
while still managing to keep things fairly mixed-up. "Death" is one of
the most successful tracks on the release as it layers walls of
distorted guitars with high-end squalling keyboard melodies that manage
to take the track to a rather anthematic state while "7 Sisters" is
probably the most song-like track on the disc, layering another
thunderous layer of dirty guitars under crisp shards of keyboard buzz
and a thumping beat. By the time the disc has reached the track of
"B2bs," it's not even afraid to tackle twisted almost breakbeat drum
programming and the whole thing sputters along with a demented squeal
that sounds like Squarepusher if he dropped all low-end and found
himself limited to thrift-store instrument castoffs. So it goes with Dan
Friel. He makes seriously noisy pop music with instruments that most
people would consider to be junk. He's the ultimate anti-gearhound, yet
he sometimes coaxes glorious noises out of things. This is not for
everyone, but if you're into pushing pre-defined limits on hardware,
you'll find Friel to be your man.
-almostcool.org
Regards to all the cool kids over at Hit2k
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01 Dead Batteries 02:09
02 Green Lights 03:15
03 Death 03:16
04 Tractor Calls 01:16
05 Seven Sisters 04:57
06 b2bs 02:29
07 Quitting 02:14
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19:36 min
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