Hot & Cold: Border Area LP (Moniker, 2012)
September 22, 2013 at 11:35 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Hot & Cold: Border Area LP
Lo-fi post-punk duo based in Beijing, utilizing drum machine, bass guitar, vocals, and noise feedback. Kind of droney and repetitive, resembling a really stripped down, guitarless Spacemen 3 in some ways (particularly the spacey vocals on opener “Out Of The Grey”). A lot of the songs have minimal vocals, usually in the beginning of the song, and then focus on noisy electronic solos. “Uighur Pop” has a punchier drum machine sound and is punctuated by horrifying sheets of screamed vocals. “Sister Told Me” is like “Sister Ray” with a cruddy drum machine and organ instead of guitars. A few tracks, like “Red Leather Set”, have a bit of a swing to the beat. I just realized that this also sort of reminds me of The Rebel (B.R. Wallers of Country Teasers’ solo project). Just really cold and minimal and deadpan, but still in a post-punk lo-fi sort of way, not a dark, goth one.
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