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Artist: MJ Guider
Album: Precious Systems
Label: Kranky
Playtime: 40:03 min
Genre: electronic
URL: http://www.kranky.net
Rip date: 2016-07-12
Street date: 2016-07-15
Size: 68.79 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 227 kbps / 4410Hz / Joint Stereo
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Ripper notes: Kranky's first release of the year! You're welcome :)
Heart-in-mouth shoegaze melter heavily tipped to fans of Grouper or Tropic Of
Cancer, Ensemble Economique!
New Orleans-based Melissa Guion a.k.a. MJ Guider makes a very memorable
entrance on Kranky with the diaphanous shoegaze pop dimensions of Precious
Systems, only her 2nd release following a low key debut with Constellation
Tatsu in 2014.
Hers is an isolated, starkly blissful sound of an ilk that really only comes
around ervery so often in these sublime proportions. Obvious comparisons
aside, sheÆs in possession of a breathtakingly romantic sound; intimately
economical, although widescreen in effect.
An arching spine of skeletal drum machines runs thru the album, moving in and
out of focus from clouds of airborne vocal, synth and guitar harmonies,
alternately radiating quaking booms from the pealing plainchant of Lit
Negative and underpinning the 10 minute Evencycle with a rumbling, slow techno
thrust, whilst elsewhere they make Triple Black step and swoon like an
eccied-up goth or evaporate altogether, leaving her in blissfully weightless
space on Second Surface.
No need to over egg this; itÆs just a divine piece of work, warranting your
immediate attention.
Highly recommended!
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01. Lit Negative ( 5:35)
02. Triple Black ( 3:40)
03. Surfacing First ( 2:41)
04. White Alsatian ( 3:32)
05. Second Surface ( 1:54)
06. Former Future Beings ( 3:25)
07. Their Voices Clear Now ( 4:32)
08. Evencycle (10:24)
09. Fiction Control ( 4:20)
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