a r t i s t : Wet Hair
t i t l e : Dream
d a t e : 2009
l a b e l : Release The Bats
g e n r e : Psychedelic
r l s. d a t e : Apr/2009
t r a c k s : 04
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 48,8 MB
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Props to UKi for bringing us a vinylrip of this great album.
Here's the CD rip! Enjoy
Wet Hair is Shawn Reed and Ryan Garbes from the now defunct
Raccoo-oo-oon. It started out as a soloproject of Shawn but
after a while Ryan joined in as well. After several tapes and
a 12", the duo is now unleashing Dream, their first fullength
album. Four long tracks of analog synth atmosphere and
industrial trance punk. Sure some Raccoo-oo-oon echoes can be
heard if putting an ear close to the speaker, but Wet Hair is
in many ways different. Melodic, upbeat, focused, dark, warm,
cold, catchy, and confusing at the same time. Hints of
everything from Suicide and Public Image Ltd to Spacemen 3
shines through. Dream has a strong nostalgic feel, fragments
from the past is passing by and at the same time we get a
strange glimpse of the future... Glowing stuff.
When Iowa City freak-out free-rockers Raccoo-oo-oon called it
quits last year it left a bummer scar in the Midwest
underground scene. But time is a great healer, and so are new
bands. So out of the ashes of the RAC pack comes Wet Hair, a
synth-punk-trance duo composed of keyboardist/vocalizer Shawn
Reed and keyboardist/drummer Ryan Garbes, and Dream is the
bandÆs debut vinyl full-length after a series of increasingly
shredding limited-edition cassettes on their own Night People
label. Piling together an unlikely trash heap of Suicide-style
drum machine beat-bops, zone-droned krautrock keys, and fucked
up outsider crooning, the LPÆs four tracks careen across a
spectrum of moods and mangled melodies. Recorded at Flat Black
Studios by Luke Tweedy and mastered by Pete Swanson, Wet
HairÆs cult electric annihilation has never gleamed with such
razor-edged weirdness; this is their dream made real. - Not
Not Fun
Tracklist: 1. Cult Electric Annihiliation. 2. Black Sand. 3.
Ordinary Lives. 4. Radio Machines/Gold Chains.
PRESSING INFO!
500 copies.
http://www.releasethebats.com
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01-Cult Electric Annihiliation [08:31]
02-Black Sand [08:18]
03-Ordinary Lives [06:38]
04-Radio Machines/Gold Chains [08:49]
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32:16 min