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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Bowery Electric
Title......: Beat
Rip Date...: Dec-13-2006 Cat.No.....: KRANK014
Style......: Electronic Label......: Kranky
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 98,5 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
-V 0 for our archivist friends...
When Bowery Electric released their self-titled debut a couple
years back, it was a fairly standard (but slightly higher in
quality than standard) drone/shoegazer disc. Although they sort of
rocked out on one song, the main focus of the 9-song release was
on swirling guitars and the beautiful vocals of Martha
Schwendener. Although the changes are kind of subtle on Beat, they
make a ton of difference, and in my opinion move the group onto
another level.
Instead of going with the standard percussion on the disc (one
member of the band left after the recording of their first disc),
the now-duo turned to programmed beats (hence, the title most
likely) and keyboards and in turn sound something like Seefeel
with a bit of an extra kick. When I say that the group has turned
to programmed beats, its not as if they've gone 120 BPM. Instead,
they've found a nice middle ground that helps to give their songs
that little extra something without being too overpowering. The
album-titled first track starts out with almost a minute of
downtime, but soon a repetitive loping beat (with even a bit of
crackling static left in for good measure) starts in before
Schwendener starts with her floating vocals. Over the course of 10
songs (including a couple nice instrumentals that act as sort of a
glue holding everything together, the disc creates a dreamy,
slight atmosphere with slow, subtle beats, swirling guitars, and
light vocals.
While it isn't really anything new, it sort of feels like it. It's
a nice integration of the spacey-rock stuff with a dab of
electronic stuff thrown in for good measure. Fans of the 4AD label
would probably gobble this sort of stuff up, as well as anyone who
likes aforementioned Seefeel, Slowdive, or Windy and Carl. A great
follow-up disc by a relatively new band.
-almostcool.com
p l a y l i s t
01 beat 07:16
02 empty words 03:46
03 without stopping 05:14
04 under the sun 03:32
05 fear of flying 05:40
06 looped 02:40
07 black light 06:54
08 inside out 07:20
09 coming down 04:38
10 postscript 16:41
63:41 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl