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artist · twine
release · surfaces ep
year · 2006
genre · electronic
label · ghostly international
catalogue · gidg-3
website · ghostly.com / tinyurl.com/2hyh63
date · 02-sep-2007
quality · alt-preset standard
source · digital download
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01 they themselves 5:31
02 surfaces 7:00
03 hope 5:31
04 resemblance 8:52
05 jetlag 7:23
playtime · 00h 34m 17s
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great artists leave indelible fingerprints upon every aspect of
their work. confronted with mere seconds of screen imagery, one
immediately recognizes the signature of hitchcock, kubrick, or
antonionio, for example.
without wishing to push the analogy too far, one has the same
impression after hearing mere seconds of twine's (greg malcolm and
chad mossholder) music. perhaps it's the foreboding atmosphere, or
maybe the marriage of tremolo guitar shudders with haunted
electronics - whatever, it's clearly an immediately identifiable
and ethereal sound.
though some of the ep's material (more a mini-album at 39-minutes)
sounds like it could have come from the same sessions that
produced the duo's self-titled 2003 album (the hypnotic dirge
"they themselves" situates a voiceover within a haunted network of
dubby screeches and guitar placidity, recalling the earlier disc's
"plectrum"), it's overall darker in tone and in places more
densely textured.
pealing guitars in "hope" etch ominous lines that exude a
badalamenti-styled dread while "surfaces", a harrowing weave of
muted howls, detonative ripples, and piercing shards, might
represent a new standard in nightmarish soundscaping for the duo.
in addition, the dramatically deep plunge into a throbbing abyss
in "resemblance" does nothing but heighten anticipation for the
upcoming violets full-length all the more.
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