Emptyset: Demiurge

I'm too lazy today to write anything...here's a blurb found online:

Multiverse - the constellation of forward-thinking Bristol labels that also includes Tectonic, Kapsize and Caravan - reactivates its seminal Subtext imprint (best known for those mind-melting early Vex'd singles) for a daring new LP from Emptyset. A collaboration between Mutiverse boss James 'Ginz' Ginzburg and Paul Purgas, Demiurge is the second album by Emptyset, and finds them reducing their production process down to a singular signal chain channelled into a modulated analogue hardware line (or so we're told). The results are somewhere between drone, techno, noise, power electronics and the very outer limits of dubstep: in other words, audio porn for the more serious soundboys and girls among you. The duo's reliance on stomach-aching subs and ear-grazing blasts of static make clear their love of, and debt to, the work of Mika Vainio and Pan Sonic, and 'Void' reminds us of last year's blink-and-you-missed it Suum Cuique record: electronic music with real physical presence. 'Point' and 'Function' wrestle a kind of juddering techno groove out of jagged comper shrapnel, reminding us of the Raster-Noton bods like Byetone, Ikeda and Alva Noto at their most brutal and direct. 'Periphery' conjures the groaning, haunted interiors of Alien and Event Horizon, while the mid-paced warfunk of 'Tangent' sounds like it could raze Bristol to the ground if played out on a rig that’s up to it, and 'Monad' is an ear-walloping exercise in loop/edit delirium, coming over like Errorsmith in the depths of a black depression. The message is clear: in space, no one can hear you scream

Good shit and some serious bass if you're into that.

How is this?

I like it quite a bit. Critics seem to be heaping the lion's share of praise on Attention Please, which is also very good. I think the reason is that AP is more experimental and varied. Heavy Rocks is much more the straightforward "heavy" music that I associate with Boris, as the title suggests. Both albums are very rewarding, depending on your mood.

Not really listened to a lot of new music this year, maybe 20 albums, but this is one of the few that has really grabbed me.

The Impressions: Keep on Pushing

If you don't like the Impressions, there's something wrong with you. This is one of their finest albums.

Bon Iver - s/t
Cults - s/t
Black Lips - Arabia Mountain

So fucking great.
Certainly one of the great summertime albums of all-time.

Vetiver - The Errant Charm
Man Man - The Life Fantastic
Cut Copy - Zonoscope

hows that vetiver?

So far this week:






Mickey Newbury - An American Trilogy
Frankie Miller - Frankie Miller...That's Who The Complete Chrysalis Recordings
Garland Jeffreys - Ghost Writer/One Eyed Jack/American Boy & Girl
The Booze - At Maximum Volume
Mary Gauthier - Filth & Fire
Lee Clayton - S/T
Joe Henry - Trampoline
Tim Easton - Since 1966 Volume I

trio! yay!