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░ ▓████▓▌ ░ Artist.......: The Mae Shi ▐▓▀▀
▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: Heartbeeps ▀ ░
▀█▄▓████▓▓▄█▀ Genre........: Indie ░▓ ▌
▄▀██▓██▓▓▀ Language.....: English ░▓░▐▓
▓▓▄▀█▓▓▓▀ Label........: Anticon ░▓░ █▓▌
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░▓▓░ ▐█▓▓ ░ ░▓▓░ playtime....: 15:41 min ░▓▓ ▐███████▓▓▌ ░
░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ rip.date....: 13-06-2005 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
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░ ▐███████▓▓▌░▓▓▓░ size........: 24,4 MB ░▓▓▓▓▓ ▓░▓▓░░ ░
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▓████▓▌ ░ track title time ▐▓▀▀
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▓████▓▌ 01. Heartbeeps 00:10 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Born for A Short Time 01:04 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. Crimes of Infancy 01:44 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. Heartbeeps 00:18 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. The Meat Of the Inquiry 01:40 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. Spoils of Injury 00:43 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. Eat the Price 03:16 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. Spoils of Victory 02:03 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. The Universal Polymath 02:22 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. Heartbeeps 02:21 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Like an ADD child raised on Sesame Street tapes on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ fast forward, you get the feeling that nothing ▓▌
▓████▓▌ holds the Mae ShiÆs attention for very long. The LA ▓▌
▓████▓▌ band likes to make short, frantic, yelping, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bleating songs. Last yearÆs Terrorbird was a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ spastic call to arms for freak-punkists everywhere, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ blasting through 31 songs in about 40 minutes. But ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the truly amazing thing was the breadth of sounds ▓▌
▓████▓▌ they were able to capture in those 40 short ▓▌
▓████▓▌ minutes. As makers of mix-tapes and sound collages, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the band seemed equally adept at furiously ▓▌
▓████▓▌ channeling post-punk gods, creating lilting hip-hop ▓▌
▓████▓▌ beats, evangelical bird-screeching, grooving to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ funk then easing into a lucious glitch-pop ballad. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Rather than a collection of short songs, the album ▓▌
▓████▓▌ was a bloody, bleating whole, borrowing ideas from ▓▌
▓████▓▌ one song to the next, revisting riffs in a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ thematically tight whole. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The bandÆs newest, Heartbeeps, continues in much ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the same vein as Terrorbird, though with a few ▓▌
▓████▓▌ twists. A short rollercoaster ride at 10 songs in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 16 minutes, the album recreates the length of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bands early live shows --- apparently someone once ▓▌
▓████▓▌ told the Mae Shi you should always leave æem ▓▌
▓████▓▌ wanting more. But IÆm not going to fault a band for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ putting out a short EPÆs worth of material a scant ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10 months after their last album, if anything I ▓▌
▓████▓▌ wish more bands were as generous. It also helps ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that Heartbeeps contains some of the Mae ShiÆs ▓▌
▓████▓▌ finest moments to date. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ After the intro bleeps and whirs of ôHeartbeeps ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (1),ö ôBorn for a Short Timeö rips into the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ dominant Mae Shi sound that kicked off the front ▓▌
▓████▓▌ half of Terrorbird, a spastic mash-up of Melt ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Banana, Deerhoof and Fugazi-style post-punk with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ lead singer Ezra Buchla yelping, ôI was born in a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ magazine!ö ôCrimes of Infancyö continues in the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ same way, a stuttering, screaching, panting ▓▌
▓████▓▌ noise-punk-pop collage. ôThe Meat of the Inquiryö ▓▌
▓████▓▌ is a crunchy, noisy howler than does call to mind ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Deerhoof more strongly than other Mae Shi material; ▓▌
▓████▓▌ but, like Terrorbird, Heartbeeps evolves from this ▓▌
▓████▓▌ interesting, though familiar starting point in its ▓▌
▓████▓▌ second half. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ ôSpoils of Injury,ö a criminally short burst of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ electro-pop beauty, leads perfectly into ôEat the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Prize,ö one of the best songs they've recorded. At ▓▌
▓████▓▌ once channeling and moving past the Fugazi/Deerhoof ▓▌
▓████▓▌ influences, it surges with an energy that is all ▓▌
▓████▓▌ crackling terror-pop and somehow manages to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ integrate the slower glitch-pop. It is a song where ▓▌
▓████▓▌ they take their helter-skelter way of assembling ▓▌
▓████▓▌ albums to build a truly unique and fascinating song ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ---- the song is beast that careens from gorgeous ▓▌
▓████▓▌ guitar riffs to chugging, anthemic rock and back. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ It is this kind of experimentation that will ▓▌
▓████▓▌ continue to make Mae Shi a fascinating animal. The ▓▌
▓████▓▌ song that follows, ôSpoils of Victory,ö is equally ▓▌
▓████▓▌ fascinating and shows the group again making ▓▌
▓████▓▌ something deceptively beautiful out of the ashes of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ their furious squall. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The mini-album finishes strongly with ôThe ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Universal Polymath,ö which revisits TerrorbirdÆs ▓▌
▓████▓▌ fantastic ôVampire Beats,ö and ôHeartbeeps (3),ö an ▓▌
▓████▓▌ epic burst of anxious, melodic key-pop with the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ groupÆs infamous bird-chanting buried in the far ▓▌
▓████▓▌ background. As the song moves into a ripping, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ overdriving guitar riff that crescendos and then ▓▌
▓████▓▌ cuts out, one of the shortest, most perplexing and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ engaging efforts of the year abruptly ends. It is a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ short squelched transmission of impossibly ▓▌
▓████▓▌ intriguing noise-pop that only leaves the listener ▓▌
▓████▓▌ wanting much, much more. One gets the impression ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that is exactly the way the Mae Shi want things ▓▌
▓████▓▌ right now. ▓▌
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