SPECTRE FOLK-The Blackest Medicine, Vol. II- 12" ----> OUT NOW!
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Mar 31, 2011, 10:47:21 AM3/31/11
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SPECTRE FOLK-The Blackest Medicine, Vol. II- 12" ----> OUT NOW!
Pete Nolan was Spectre Folk before drumming and strumming in Magik
Markers was his main gig, and will be Spectre Folk long after he
shuffles off this mortal coil. The main benefit of ghost-folk is: you
can play it way after you’re dead, and while you’re alive the Spectre
can haunt any decent willing body with a gift for the unreal. This
time around, fellow Michigander Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) runs
drums, Peter Meehan (The Grey Lady) glues guitar and Aaron Mullan
(Tall Firs) slithers bass, creating an alchemy the Spectre hasn’t
floated since the days of basement wig-wearing in the short-lived
Norman Bates era. The band entered Echo Canyon West with the intention
of recording a 7-inch of the up-tempo version of “The Blackest
Medicine,” the title cut from the 2007 home-fi Woodsist debut. After
several sessions, they emerged with a four-song studio collage monster
that won’t fit in your locker and smells like smoked banana peels and
undies blowing down an alleyway. A vibraphone, piano, and a plate
reverb unit the size of a Brooklyn apartment were all employed by the
Spectre like Uri Gellar used spoons—inappropriately, desperate and
bent. They physically turned the two-inch reel of tape over so Meehan
could put subliminal backwards masking under his Erkin-Koray-worthy
guitar solo on “Fourth Dimension Refs,” and Nolan put the Temple
Screamer to good use on tracks one and two, using samples of Shirley
Temple Black’s “Good Ship Lollipop” as vocoder harmonies on choruses.
Oh yeah, it’s full of burning psych-pop jammers, too! Earmarking
Nolan’s longstanding but unspoken obsession with personal hygiene,
“Keep Your Teeth Clean!” is a krauty suite that betrays Shelley’s and
Mullan’s recent stint as the rhythm section for Neu! Their teutonic
influence has the effect of putting the dreamy psych-fuzz exhibited on
last year’s Compass LP through a blender… with a frog... that spills
out into a wide open Milky Way head zone. You can’t snuggle with this
record, so strap yourself in and feel the Gs! Fearless as a lemming,
Nolan has created a private universe here, a Society of the Spectre-
cal, if you will, and his gift is his freedom. Let’s have a drift. —
Elisa Ambrogio (Magik Markers)
ORDER 12"
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ORDER FROM iTUNES
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-blackest-medicine-vol-2-ep/id424041455
Pete Nolan was Spectre Folk before drumming and strumming in Magik
Markers was his main gig, and will be Spectre Folk long after he
shuffles off this mortal coil. The main benefit of ghost-folk is: you
can play it way after you’re dead, and while you’re alive the Spectre
can haunt any decent willing body with a gift for the unreal. This
time around, fellow Michigander Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) runs
drums, Peter Meehan (The Grey Lady) glues guitar and Aaron Mullan
(Tall Firs) slithers bass, creating an alchemy the Spectre hasn’t
floated since the days of basement wig-wearing in the short-lived
Norman Bates era. The band entered Echo Canyon West with the intention
of recording a 7-inch of the up-tempo version of “The Blackest
Medicine,” the title cut from the 2007 home-fi Woodsist debut. After
several sessions, they emerged with a four-song studio collage monster
that won’t fit in your locker and smells like smoked banana peels and
undies blowing down an alleyway. A vibraphone, piano, and a plate
reverb unit the size of a Brooklyn apartment were all employed by the
Spectre like Uri Gellar used spoons—inappropriately, desperate and
bent. They physically turned the two-inch reel of tape over so Meehan
could put subliminal backwards masking under his Erkin-Koray-worthy
guitar solo on “Fourth Dimension Refs,” and Nolan put the Temple
Screamer to good use on tracks one and two, using samples of Shirley
Temple Black’s “Good Ship Lollipop” as vocoder harmonies on choruses.
Oh yeah, it’s full of burning psych-pop jammers, too! Earmarking
Nolan’s longstanding but unspoken obsession with personal hygiene,
“Keep Your Teeth Clean!” is a krauty suite that betrays Shelley’s and
Mullan’s recent stint as the rhythm section for Neu! Their teutonic
influence has the effect of putting the dreamy psych-fuzz exhibited on
last year’s Compass LP through a blender… with a frog... that spills
out into a wide open Milky Way head zone. You can’t snuggle with this
record, so strap yourself in and feel the Gs! Fearless as a lemming,
Nolan has created a private universe here, a Society of the Spectre-
cal, if you will, and his gift is his freedom. Let’s have a drift. —
Elisa Ambrogio (Magik Markers)
ORDER 12"
http://woodsist.blogspot.com/p/woodsist-store-mailorder.html
ORDER FROM iTUNES
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-blackest-medicine-vol-2-ep/id424041455
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