CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Blank Realm
Album....: Dirty Ark
Label....: Not Not Fun
Size.....: 40,2 MB
Source...: TAPE
Playtime.: 32:30 min
Genre....: Psychedelic
Release..: Jan-23-2010
Encoder..: LAME V3.97 -V2 --Vbr-New
Quality..: avgkbps 44.1Hz Joint-Stereo
TrackList:
01 17:00 Clean Shoes
02 00:45 Blues Helix 3
03 05:35 Don't Let Anyone Sleep
04 09:10 Trick
Release Notes:
Combo deal of Blank Realm's Heatless Ark LP
and the bonus cassette, Dirty Ark (pictured).
Musical description above.
WeÆve touted this Brisbane clan on multiple
occasions in the past (the Mind Peril and The
Returner tapes on NNF) but they say the third
timeÆs the charm and clearly thatÆs true because
not only is Heatless Ark Blank RealmÆs vinyl debut,
itÆs also by far the weirdest, deepest, punkest,
freakiest, aka BEST album the bandÆs ever made.
And so for all these reasons (and more) we are
happy as heaven to offer it up for the world.
The porous BR line-up allows for a lot of instrument-
ation flux and this transience translates on
record here to a strange range of agendas: open
electric ecstasies (ôFabulous Terror Indexö),
dissonant outsider-wave art-punk (ôSaint Tegram,ö
ôHeatless Arkö), loner Jandek-y demos (ôBlues Helix,ö
ôBlues Helix 2ö), slow-diving femme-sung dream-gaze
(ôTill I Clear My Own Nameö), and beyond. Varied, wild,
and intensely ambitious, this LP establishes Blank
Realm as high on the high heap of the rich Australian
underground, with miles more expansion potential.
Hopefully western world touring plans can congeal
soonishly to drive the point home. Black vinyl LPs
in beautiful metallic ink smoke-ritual jackets (these
jpegs don't do them justice) screenprinted by art-wizard
Ryo from Topping Bottoms. Edition of 400.