Cotton brought this up a few weeks ago, but I found a full copy of the John Rifle album Fracas Nurture online. Its very much a cut and paste collage album a la Books, except this guy has a thing for bunnies. Some really cool stuff. If you want to just check one track out, try track 12, "Redux."

http://www.upstatewasted.com/audio/John ... 20Nurture/

that track is awesome. I listened to it this morning, actually. Is this the same album you posted most of a few weeks ago?

Yea, it is. When I posted the link a few weeks ago, it only had like 13 of the 25 tracks. This link has the rest of them.

(scratches head)


I just listened to this, it sounds unfinished. It's just some guy recycling a piano riff over and over again next to a heavy snare drum beat.


...and can someone explain the inappropriate sounding, random radio report samples throughout? Cheesy. In a bad way.


WTF?

those are actually one of my favorite parts. listening to "Redux" this morning, I actually thought to myself "this song would be kinda mediocre, almost Bruce Hornsby-esque if it weren't for the samples and the little piano breaks thrown in there". The samples work really well in most of the album, though yeah, there are some tracks that sound more like "noise sculptures" (a term I abhor) than anything else.

The samples are kind of the point of the music. The music is mostly "collages" of different samples over a piano riff, much like what Books did on their first album. There is a very rough, DIY feel to the music, mainly because thats exactly what it is. I think its pretty great, myself.