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Artist :: SHXCXCHCXSH
Title :: Linear S Decoded
Company :: Avian
Catalognr :: AVNLP002
Genre :: Electronic
Year :: 2014
Url :: http://www.whatpeopleplay.com/
Grabber :: EAC
Encoder :: LAME
Source :: WEB
Quality :: VBR / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Playtime :: 56:07 min
Size :: 99,2 MB
Released :: 09-09-2014
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A year after their much-praised debut album STRGTHS, Avian's
cryptic Swedish duo SHXCXCHCXSH are ready to present their second
album, Linear S Decoded, this August. From the elegiac opener
Entering The S-Cloud, the intensity of tracks such as Elocution
and Rudimental Retreat, to the disorienting beauty of Wading
Guise and aptly-titled closer Monolithic Conclusion, the LP
deftly broadens the scope of SHXCXCHCXSH's singular aesthetic.
Keeping their mystic aura has always been important to SHXCXCHCXSH
so important they didn't want to take part in what they deemed
'the language game' until now. Their previous strict use of
fragmented track titles illustrated an ideal of communication
purely through music, to service the focus on sound via complete
abstraction. Breaking the habit with Linear S Decoded doesn't
necessarily indicate a complete break with their approach, but an
adjustment to the direction they have travelled since they first
emerged two years ago.
As Resident Advisor identified in a perceptive review of the
previous LP, among SHXCXCHCXSH's key strengths is the imbuing of
their productions with a narrative sense, a sonic progression
that moves beyond techno's standard repetition - it's an element
of their work that's heightened further on Linear S Decoded,
pulling focus from the more grinding, brutalist elements of their
distinct sound to reveal the more melodic, almost optimistic,
elements that had previously remained in the shadows of the
productions until now.
The track titles themselves are evocative about the new record
whilst revealing few specifics: no less intriguing than the
clustered consonants of the prior release titles, hinting at
deeper underlying narratives at play, possibly historically
informed, or a fiction of the duo's own making. Either way,
definitive answers will not be forthcoming: the mysteries that
lay beneath SHXCXCHCXSH's approach to music making have long been
an intrinsic part of their appeal. Linear S Decoded presents the
opportunity for newcomers and those already au fait with the duo
to employ their deciphering abilities, whilst simultaneously
offering an expanded and ever more richly detailed landscape to
traverse...
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1. Entering the S-Cloud 2:03
2. Drain This Lord 4:58
3. Wadin Guise 3:29
4. The Roots 3:19
5. Elocution 5:41
6. Helical Dialog 3:13
7. The Under Shore 5:23
8. The Repelling of the Quantitive Invasion 5:53
9. A Sunny Day in Ostrogothia 4:01
10. Rudimental Retreat 3:46
11. This Hmming Raverie 5:07
12. Sub Mission - The Atlantic Vision 4:20
13. Monolithic Conclusion 4:49
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