a r t i s t : Heavy Winged
t i t l e : Alive In My Mouth
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Three Lobed
c a t : TLR60
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Psychedelic Rock
r l s. d a t e : Jul/2008
t r a c k s : 03
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 67,0 MB
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Rip of the CD that comes with the vinyl, includes a 17min
bonus track entitled 'Emak Bakia'
some recent reviews:
"alive in my mouth" was listed second on the wire magazine's
"office ambience" list, i think in the last issue? expect a
full review from them soon.
alive... was also norman records' "album of the week" last
week, here's what they had to say about it:
Christ almighty, this is excellent. Heavy Winged have chucked
out 'Alive In My Mouth', an LP they recorded a couple of years
back that's only now finding it's way into the world, lovingly
pressed on to 180g vinyl and packaged with a CD including the
full album plus an extra bonus track. This is probably the
best new release I've heard since being drafted into the
Norman army, an absolute battering ram of heavy, lo-fi,
improvised noise-rock over two loooong tracks. It's just so
unrestrained and primitive sounding, it gets me in some sort
of indefinable tribal way.. My id feels completely poked. Like
I know that a caveman ancestor of mine would be well into it
too without any need for context or any of that daft stuff.
He'd probably be pretty confused at what the hell the
overloaded amps and feedback were but they'd inspire him to go
out and do some hardcore hunter-gatherer shit and no mistake.
If they started these jams in the centre of the Earth they'd
probably strip away the layers of the planet from the inside
until eventually there was nothing left but the band floating
towards a terrified man in the moon looking his own imminent
death in the eye. I imagine this is what Drum's Not Dead-style
Liars would probably sound like if they completely shed their
pop sensibilities and just went apeshit on shifting, drawn-out
grooves and heaviness. Their reviews are usually total crud
but I heard Ebert and Roeper gave this twenty thousand broken
thumbs up. And rightly so. Limited to 647 copies as far as I
know, so get yourself in there!
from aquarius records:
Latest from this Brooklyn trio (at least they were Brooklyn
based last time we checked, they may be spread out all over
the country these days, but at least one of em is still in
Brooklyn!) and while they still wield some serious psychedelic
heaviness, they've also gotten seriously melodic. The first of
two sidelong tracks on this new lp is wrapped around a main
riff and looped rhythm, that is crazy catchy in addition to
being blissfully blown out and weirdly hypnotic. The trio lock
into this relentlessly staccato groove, a sort of machinelike
groove, super repetitive and robotic, the group pounding away,
while the guitar slowly builds momentum, the sheets of high
end and the streaks of feedback and wall of buzz lifting ever
higher, a slow burning ascendancy, it almost sounds like some
scientist took a lost Fushitsusha jam and slowed it down, it
the lab, to examine it more closely, like some Discovery
documentary featuring a time lapse film of a 'psych jam'
captured in the wild. Until finally the main chugging rhythm
drops out, the whole track becoming more and more stripped
down, the drums skittering away, while some tangled buzz
continues to twist and contort, into various permutations, the
drums remaining the only constant, the guitar offering up
strange and gloriously gnarled melodies, and the bass just
buzzes and rumbles heavily. Right at the end it gets super
spacious and pretty, but still without losing any momentum or
lysergic energy.
The flipside is another grinding buzzy psychjam, one set of
strings oscillating intensely in the low end, chugging and
churning, the other locking into a woozy looped riff, all
draped over another blown out motorik groove, that sounds like
a more loose extension of the main A side rhythm. The track
has plenty of twists and turns, eventually getting all mathy
and metal in the middle, the main riff becoming super spidery,
the drums going spastic and free, but still all settled on a
thick bed of grinding mesmerizing buzz, finishing off with a
burst of resplendent epic majesty, gradually slowing down to a
weird warped outro, of lurching, skittery downtuned riffs and
haunting disembodied metallic buzz, weaving back and forth and
finally leaving a washed out sun baked glow to fade out
quietly.
The cool thing with Three Lobed releases, is that not only do
you get the lp, gorgeously packaged and pressed as always, but
you also get the same songs pressed on an actual cd. Including
a 17 minute bonus track only on the cd. Another weirdly looped
slow motion psychedelic workout, this one even more slow and
bleary than the lp sides. The drums setting the skeletal
framework, locked into another mesmerizing complex loop,
around which thick effected buzz, scrapes and chugs and whirls
fall into step, establishing another kick as motorik groove
that could go on forever as far as we're concerned, and in
terms of the track, actually does, while the guitar here soars
weightless high above, sounding all angelic and sun dappled,
almost like a wailing voice, spread out in glistening streaks
over that awesomely relentless chnnkè chnnk chnnk chnnk,
below, so kick ass, weirdly minimal but still so heavy and
psychedelically resplendent, eventually slowing down to a
lysergic, buzz drenched crawl, before finishing off in a
blinding chaotic crush of blinding high end, squiggly freaked
out FX and chaotic drum crush.
Gorgeous black and white packaging, with a super tripped out,
crazy intricate pen and ink cover image, thick sleeve, pressed
on thick vinyl, with a real cd not a cd-r, and crazy limited
as always, only 647 copies, each one hand numbered, we got a
bunch from the band when they were here on tour last week, so
not sure we'll be able to get more once these are gone...
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01-Gruesome Pillow Talk [17:54]
02-Wounded Crystals [16:45]
03-Emak Bakia [17:19]
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