Night Shift: Trespassers Guide to Nowhere (Time Released Sound, 2012)
December 15, 2013 at 3:22 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Night Shift: Trespassers Guide To Nowhere
Finally getting to the bottom of all the promo CDs that have been sitting around since Foxy Digitalis still existed. Most of these are bottom of the barrel and not worth talking about, but I’m pretty stunned that I’ve had this Night Shift CD sitting on my desk SEALED for an entire year, and not having any clue of how brilliant it is until just now. This is incredible enough to retroactively be one of my favorite albums of 2012. Very hard to describe dream-sequence collage, very thick distorted backwards loops, lots of spoken samples (some in other languages, and many from
freesound.org), acoustic guitars, glitch, drone, and just lots of unpredictability. And it’s 77 minutes long so it feels like it just never ends. Sort of reminds me of Paavorarju, but without actually lapsing into songs with hooks and melodies, instead it’s just more free-flowing and stream-of-consciousness. But it’s just seriously stunning and gorgeous and beautiful. I have the limited digipack version, but
Discogs says there’s an even more limited edition with an origami pop-up book inside a cotton sleeve, with inserts made from 100 year old ledger paper. Such a magnificently labored-over, beautiful album.
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