Artist : Drafted By Minotaurs
Title : Aversion Therapy
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 06/13/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 04
Label : Infraction
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 28:57 min
Size : 41,6 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Blueprints For Sunbuilding 07:00
02.Sault Locks 02:03
03.Skin The Night And Fog 05:48
04.Sunday's Morning Ghost 14:06
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28:57 min
Drafted by Minotaurs mainstays are guitarist Ryan Wilson and Ian Fulcher, who contributes trumpet and
glockenspiel. Meanwhile members of a floating cast chip in with added textures from cello and violin.
Opener "Blueprints for Sunbuilding" spools out a hail of plucked and bowed strings, webs of sound
solidifying then melting into steely flow, stall set out somewhere around cultivated Constellation post-
rockeries, a mood and sound that may feel familiar to those acquainted with the new backwoods
chamberisms and neo-folk drone of UK cottage industrialites such as Richard Skelton (aka A Broken
Consort/Clouwbeck) and Seasons (Pre-din). "Sault Locks" proposes cyclical patterns of stringed things
that seem to hover shyly apart, before swarming to swell and billow over the listener - not so much a
Storm of Drones as a squall of tones. "Skin the Night and Fog," a more veiled sister of the previous
pluckings and bowings, plays out a psych-infused dream sequence. These three tracks forming Side A
work with their own distinct harmonic and textural patterns, while seeming like movements of something
overarching. Miasmic minor chord tidal flow abounds, the music's motion determined by languorous bow-
strokes, its textures by warm-prickly needles of guitar pizzicatos. Side B's single extended track,
"Sunday's Morning Ghost," is wrought from similar materials, but aspires to more transcendant levels, led
by the celestial harmonics of Fulcher's treated trumpet. It takes on atavistic echoes redolent of some
distant Miles Davis or Jon Hassell blowback, as if viewing In a Silent Way through a post-Kosmische
kaleidoscope, or channeled through Eno/Budd cathedrals to meet today's psych-drone and ambient
trajectories. Overall, Aversion Therapy thrives on such productive tensions between genres and eras, as it
does between live and recorded, spontaneous and pre-structured, making for engaging, at times thrillingly
psychotropic, listening." - alan lockett
I recognize the cost factor. The details...the outer sleeve is a Stoughton printing tip-on style gatefold. 'Tip-
on' is a separate matte sheet that is applied to thick board stock. Like LPs from the '70's, only thicker. Or
'old school' if you prefer. There is also a sort of OBI strip, or j-card that lies on the spine of the gatefold
sleeves. Similar to the Japanese import vinyls - which is a nice touch (I'm biased) that gives some
additional info. Then there is the vinyl itself - a slab of 180 gram virgin vinyl pressed at the vinyl pressing
mecca that is RTI. The inner sleeves are audiophile grade anti-static triple layer sleeves. Lastly, the outer
sleeves are resealable 4 mil plastic sleeves with flap...and they actually reseal. This LP pressing is limited
to 489 copies.
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