Description
£24.99 – Dinked Edition #71
- Dark green vinyl LP in deluxe origami sleeve *
- Bonus 7” in origami sleeve with exclusive b-side *
- Dinked OBI strip *
- LTD to 400
“They’ve mapped out a whole new territory to explore.” The Quietus
The third album from Dutch punk-laced noiseniks adds new maturity and a conceptual feel that pulls the extremes of their sound together. A psyche-fuelled journey into the id punctuated with rhythmic kabuki modal mood swings, thunderstorms, digital beeps, traffic noise, and just plain old beautiful cacophonous reverb-drenched sound when needed.
The ‘third chapter’ refers to the last five years that the Dutch band have spent creating their “difficult” third album. Each song spins a yarn; there are plagues, dreams, wind and fire, ‘mythical’ characters, and the search for the secret government warehouse. Lead single, Tokyo Music Experience, resonates with a conveyor belt-propelled modal guitar, reflecting the halcyon days of Japanese super-productivity; a mesmerising mantra, infected with news bulletin on-the-hour bleeps underlining its time-sensitive nature; a pristine super-commercial anthem to drive loyalty and reinforce solidarity with the party!
Having been described as creating “underground noise with a bracing, warped pop appeal” (Mojo), their new album is a coming-of-age post-classic with a unique worldview – inspired by Van Dyke Parks (Song Cycle) Scott Walker (3 & 4), Moondog (Elpmas), White Noise (An Electric Storm) and Beach Boys (Smile).
If their previous effort (Tape Hiss) was their very own sketch of a sketch for an incomplete concept album, a noisy reaction to their previous life, then ‘Excerpts From Chapter 3..’, with all its interlaced intricacies, is the realisation of their transition from punk-spiked-pop to psyche-pop protagonists.
Evolving, testing, infectious…
Tracklisting | |
Side A
1 Prologue: Rain 2 A Trail Of Wind And Fire 3 Second Born Child 4 Tokyo Music Experience 5 The Rise And Fall Of The Plague 6 Another Year
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Side B
7 Fragments 8 The Disappearance Of Dr. Duplicate 9 Excerpt Taken From Chapter 3 10 Where Is My Dream? 11 Part One: The Long Drought 12 Part Two: Crossing The Desert 13 Epilogue: Big Poisonous Shadows
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Bonus 7″: | 1. Tokyo Music Experience (Single Edit)
2. Osaka |