PINK REASON - 'CLEANING THE MIRROR'

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• SB84 - LP

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• SB84CD - CD

  655039108427

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IN LAST WEEKS NME!!!!! PINK REASON IS ALWAYS KEVIN DEBROUX AND PRACTICALLY NEVER ANYONE ELSE. THE SELF-RELEASED PINK REASON DEBUT SEVEN-INCH FROM 2006 WAS AN ITCH OF SUCH BEGUILING PSYCHIC ACHE THAT ALL THE INHABITANTS OF SILTBREEZE ISLAND SCRATCHED IT UNTIL THEY BLED. ON THIS FIRST FULL LENGTH, THE RESIDENT OF GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN, CONTINUES TO OOZE MUZZY MELANCHOLIA BY THE BUCKET, ABLY AND FORMIDABLY CLEARING HOUSE IN SANGUINE MANOR, WHOSE PREVIOUS TENANTS INCLUDE ROYAL TRUX, THE JACOBITES, PHANTOM PAYNE, BLACK VIAL, AND OTHER MARGINAL INHABITANTS WHOSE STICKY FINGERS GLIMMER IN STONED ADULATION. DOMINATED BY CREEPING SYNTHS, STARK STRUMS AND RICKETY PERCUSSIVE SPLATS THAT COMPLEMENT DE BROUX'S HEARTSCRAPING VOCAL CATHARSIS, CLEANING THE MIRROR JOURNEYS FAR BEYOND ANY KNOWN PERSPECTIVE, PRACTICALLY INSINUATING AN ALTERNATE OTHERWORLD WHERE TIM BUCKLEY'S LORCA AND JANDEK'S READY FOR THE HOUSE HAVE BEEN HYBRIDIZED INTO A RIPEFOR- PLUCKING MASTERPIECE.

Tracks

1. GOODBYE
2. MOTHEFUCKER
3. STORMING HEAVEN
4. DEAD END
5. THRUSH
6. UP THE SLEEVE

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Audio & Video

RIO EN MEDIO - 'BRIDE OF DYNAMITE'

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• GONG03 - CD

  655035050324

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FEATURED ON THE DEVENDRA CURATED UNCUT COVER MOUNT!!!!! RIO EN MEDIO'S DEBUT ALBUM, THE BRIDE OF DYNAMITE IS AN INTRICATE COLLAGE OF LAYERED VOCALS, DELICATELY PLUCKED UKULELE, GHOSTLY SAMPLES AND GRITTY, DECONSTRUCTED ELECTRONICS. IT FEATURES TEXTS LIFTED FROM SOURCES AS DISPARATE AS WILLIAM BLAKE, PAUL ELUARD, JOHN ASHBERY AND A 1920S BAGHDAD TRAVELOGUE. THE SONGWRITING IS RARELY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, YET IT MAINTAINS A VERY PERSONAL TONE. IN THE WORDS OF DANIELLE STECH HOMSY (THE ARTIST BEHIND RIO EN MEDIO), IT IS "MUSIC THAT WANTS TO LISTEN AS MUCH AS BE HEARD." SPECIAL TOUCHES WERE CONTRIBUTED TO SOME TUNES BY ANDY CABIC (VETIVER), SIERRA CASADY (COCO ROSIE), TIM FITE AND DAVID COULTER, AMONG OTHERS. CO-PRODUCED AND MIXED BY THOM MONAHAN, PRODUCER OF DEVENDRA BANHART'S CRIPPLE CROW, THE LATEST BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT, AND VETIVER AND PERNICE BROTHERS ALBUMS.

OVER THE PAST YEAR, HOMSY HAS PERFORMED AND RECORDED WITH A VARIETY OF PROMINENT ARTISTS, AMONG WHOM ARE VASHTI BUNYAN, DEVENDRA BANHART, TARANTULA A.D., LARRY YES AND THE ART OF FLYING, FITE, COCOROSIE, AND VETIVER. SHE PERFORMS REGULARLY IN NEW YORK, WHERE SHE LIVES, AND RECENTLY APPEARED AT DEVENDRA?S ALL TOMORROWS PARTIES CURATED DAY IN MAY 2006 FESTIVAL. NOW, ARMED WITH HER BARITONE UKE AND A FAITHFUL TEAM OF INSTRUMENTALISTS, SHE IS PREPARING TO STORM THE GLOBE.

Tracks

1. YOU CAN STAND
2. HEAVEN IS HIGH
3. TIGER?S EAR
4. EVERYONE IS SOMEONE?S
5. EUROPE A PROPHECY
6. GIRLS ON THE RUN
7. KILL THE MESSENGER
8. JOE WAS ON THE PLANE
9. FRIDAY
10. I SEE THE STAR
11. THE BAGHDAD MERCHANT?S SON
12. LIBERT

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