This new track from the singer/songwriter/instrumentalist Gabriel Bruce surfaced online yesterday ahead of his debut show at Electrowerks on Feb 23rd. Blessed with a thick, rich, bass voice, his first single 'Sleep Paralysis' was an epic five-minute dark pop song, but he's followed it up in a lighter mood with a rework of the Sam Cooke classic, it mixes tinny midi sounds with lush orchestral wooziness and Bruce's voice dominates without overbearing.
Earth, the project of Seattle native Dylan Carlson, return with the second part of 'Angels Of Darkness, Demons of Light'; a mournful record inspired in part by Carlson's bout of near-fatal illness. Both records were recorded in a two week stretch in 2010, and are the follow up to the much acclaimed come-back records 'Hex' and 'Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull' that surfaced after a ten year break from recording and playing live.
The 'Angels' records are sparser and colder, utilising the cello
of one-time Nirvana collaborator Lori Goldston. You can get the
full low down on the career of Carlson in the upcoming issue of Tank but for now you can
stream the album in its entirety below.
Earth: Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II by pitchfork
Photo by Gabriel
Green for Tank.
New York trio CCC (pronounced see-see-see) are wonderfully of the twenty-first century; they shift between being a live band, a remix outfit, a dj troupe and working in print media, having also released a series of books, the latest of which 'On Acid' is currently part of MoMA's print archive. The boundaries that would normally demarcate how a group operate and even what a group 'is' are blended in a strange fuzz of electronic beats, analogue warmth and deep house grooves.
Their new 12" 'Sonic Underground' is a series of remixes that sits
somewhere between minimal house and sunrise-on-a-beach euphoria.
CCC's version of Mack Wintson's 'One You Want' subjugates a
pounding 4/4 beat with acoustic strums, which in the bands own
words, is in order to "to find a way to reflect the beauty of human
body in a space beyond the confines of the dancefloor."
