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ARTiST....: enablers
TiTLE.....: output negative space
LABEL.....: Neurot
GENRE.....: rock
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 45,1 MB
REL.DATE..: 03-27-2006
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01] five o'clock sundays 03:32
02] up 03:26
03] on monk 05:27
04] mediterranean 03:03
05] output negative space 02:52
06] for jack- a philippic 04:44
07] sudden inspection 03:41
08] 1939 03:04
09] ghosting 03:35
TOTAL TiME : 33:24 min
Fitting to its name, the San Francisco quartet
Enablers writes songs that are equally
manipulative and encouraging to our darkest
desires. The band made up of journeyman veterans
of Swans, Tarnation, Nice Strong Arm and Toiling
Midgets merges dramatic and flowing melodic
soundscapes -- of which SF Gate calls "possibly
the world's best power trio" -- with the visceral
spoken narratives of underground literary veteran
Pete Simonelli. It's almost as though the band's
fluid and often soothing music exists to distract
our better instincts while Simonelli whispers
above it all, urging and lulling us into the dark,
decrepit world of his words.
Guitarist and recording engineer Joe Goldring has
collaborated with Swans, Toiling Midgets, and Doug
Scharin of June of '44 under the moniker Out in
Worship, as well as with Neurosis' Steve Von
Till's solo projects.
Guitarist/bassist Kevin Thomson, veteran of Timco
and Nice Strong Arm, has been playing and touring
for twenty years and with his own projects and has
been a writing partner with Goldring for ten of
those years collaborating on Morning Champ,
Touched by a Janitor, and now Enablers.
Drummer Yuma Joe Byrnes has lent his unique take
on the trapset to Tarnation, Broken Horse and
others.
Pete Simonelli has been continually writing and
publishing his efforts in underground literary
journals for years and now brings his poems to the
table for Enablers.
Output Negative Space picks up where Enablers'
previous Neurot Recordings album End Note left
off, adding more soaring melody to the sometimes
parched and brittle, sometimes coiling and steeped
in tension. It's musically reminiscent of the
dynamics of Slint and the raw neo-beat intellect
of Saccharine Trust. And, above it all, Enablers
make music that exists in a realm beyond the
typical sing-song gestures of traditional tunes.
It's something altogether as powerful and
motivating as our own psyche.
Buy me if you love me :)