a r t i s t : Nmperign & Jason Lescalleet
t i t l e : Love Me Two Times
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Intransitive 026
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Sep/2006
t r a c k s : 23
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 186,5 MB
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"Initially, I guess two things jump out at one from this
release. One, much of the music contained herein is more
raucous and in your face than you might have expected. Second,
there are 23 tracks splayed over the two discs. Oh yeah, it
also doesn't sound all that much like The Doors.
What it is, is a kind of nmperign/Lescalleet sampler,
assembled over some six years and presented for our juicy
delectation. And it's damn tasty. Recorded at a wide range of
venues with correspondingly varied attacks (not to mention
degrees of fidelity), 'Love Me Two Times' provides as
comprehensive a picture as is likely feasible of these three,
from the microscopically subtle to blood smeared yawps, from
gorgeously woven drones to, well, Julia Child.
I think I've only encountered this particular grouping in live
settings twice and several of the tracks pretty much elaborate
on the general sound areas explored during those performances,
notably the fantastic, 23-minute 'White Wall', Lescalleet's
slack tape loops generating a dirty, loosely iterative drone
over and through which Kelley and Rainey dart and splinter,
the whole gradually massing into a heaving juggernaut. It's a
piece I can listen to over and over, always encountering fresh
angles and depths. There's a boatload of fine stuff to choose
from, however. The opening cut, 'The Mystery Disease That
Haunts My Town' billows out in a suitably threatening manner,
saturating the space with feedback-like moans and dark sizzle;
spectacular piece. 'Sword!' features some wonderfully wooly
electronics, with the horns sounding like pissed-off bees
trapped behind glass; when they find the crack, it ain't
pretty. It's a great example of how amazing this trio can be
when the scales tip toward the staggeringly loud, a side of
them I hadn't happened to hear before, though I'd seen them,
individually, in other extreme contexts. Listeners who've
enjoyed the louder Lescalleet/Colley interactions will feel
right at home here. 'Velvet Gloves', with its choral washes
over gasps and sputters, 'I Remember''s rich broth of echoes
and crackles that erupt insanely and morph, altogether
surprisingly, into a massive rhythm, all the way to the final
'Burnt Offerings' where found conversation, shattered tapes,
foghorn blasts, low-flying planes and much more all cohere
into an exhausting, riveting experience. If I wanted to pick
nits, I'd say that the four or five very brief cuts (around a
minute each) could either have been excised or expanded upon,
but if you just treat them as palate cleansers between main
courses, you're fine. It's unusual enough, in a quasi-sampler
such as this, to have the overall quality level pitched so
high. Very, very good stuff. If only they'd covered 'People
Are Strange'..."
(Brian Olewnick, Bagatellen)
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CD1
01-Epenthesis [00:42]
02-Four Ears [08:51]
03-Fred [07:25]
04-Honorable Mention [03:11]
05-HVAC [03:13]
06-Julia [03:11]
07-Metal Gloves [00:50]
08-No. Eleven [02:46]
09-Paper Gloves [00:53]
10-Presque Isle [02:33]
11-Revere [02:44]
12-Sword! [06:33]
13-The Mystery Disease That Haunts My Town [06:42]
14-Velvet Gloves [08:51]
CD2
01-7 [03:11]
02-Bottle At Park [04:11]
03-Burnt Offerings [16:47]
04-I Remember [06:00]
05-Imaginary Friends [00:50]
06-No. Twenty-Seven [03:11]
07-The Prodigal Bastard [04:20]
08-This Is Ruined [08:09]
09-White Wall [23:23]
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