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Blood Is Clean, Honey Owens' debut as Valet, feels more like a séance than an album. Owens described the process of making these works as more like channeling the music rather than self-consciously recording it, and it shows: her voice, guitar and electronic drones are woven together inextricably, and as she murmurs and moans, the sounds surrounding her ebb and flow match her, rising and falling like breath on the aptly named "Mystic Flood." On "Sade 4 Bri," guitar melodies ripple, reflect and undulate in endless, hypnotic patterns. Blood Is Clean is very different than Owens' work with Nudge, and resembles her contributions to Jackie-O Motherfucker only slightly -- Valet's blend of folk, drones, and indescribable noises that sound organic (even if they're anything but) borrow from Owens' other projects but sound completely unique. "April 6" begins Blood Is Clean with massed, wordless vocals, bongos and impressionistic guitar textures -- Owens strums and taps her instrument into melodic rhythms and percussive melodies that blur into each other -- while electronic sounds and other percussive elements drift in and out. The effect is incredibly natural, almost like field recordings, but as atmospheric as the album gets, it never quite fades into the background, even on the most abstract pieces like "Burmajuana," which consists of little more than whispering, wind chimes, and viscous guitar drones. Blood Is Clean's more songlike tracks are especially beautiful: Owens has an unselfconsciously sensual voice much like Bardo Pond's Isobel Sollenberger, and "Tame All the Lions" and the title track have some of the disorienting, woozy loveliness of that band's more gently psychedelic moments. The final, 13-minute epic "North" is another standout, piling layers of processed, slowly morphing vocals on top of each other so densely and lushly that they're almost tangible, suggesting glaciers slowly but surely moving and reshaping themselves. Owens' uncanny gifts for textures and for playing with space and distance in her music make Blood Is Clean a quietly accomplished album, artfully crafted without being obviously crafted. Though Owens' work is subtle, it's not so understated that it fails to make an impact on the first listen, and while active listening to the album is rewarded, there's a lot to be said for letting its serene yet unexpected sounds wash over you. ~ Heather Phares
Valet: Honey Owens.
The Wire (p.69) - "[A] beguiling, meandering combination of trancelike chants, pulsating drones and frazzled guitar doodles." Valet Blood Is Clean Songs | 1. | April 6 |
| 2. | Blood Is Clean |
| 3. | Burmajuana |
| 4. | Tame All the Lions |
| 5. | Mystic Flood |
| 6. | My Volcano |
| 7. | Sade 4 Bri |
| 8. | North |
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The fifth Talk Talk album, LAUGHING STOCK, was its first following the band's much publicized split with EMI Records (the album was issued by the jazz label Verve). Recorded with a huge complement of string instruments, LAUGHING STOCK is a far cry from the pop music of the band's early days--indeed, there are very few records that sound like it at all.
Containing elements of rock, classical, jazz, and experimental music, it pays little or no attention to traditional musical structures, setting its sights instead on unexplored realms. On "After the Flood," a slithering bass line and low-key drum pattern are colored in with peals of shrieking guitar feedback, while the whole track is suffused with sampled rain effects. "Taphead" ...
| | Cabaret Voltaire Living Legends CD (1990) Singles
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If one needs a starting place to discover how an obscure trio of Sheffield sound experimentalists became one of the founders of industrial/EBM music, not to mention a whole range of artists interested in pushing the boundaries of recorded sound, The Living Legends is it. Conveniently collecting the series of singles the classic trio line-up released on Rough Trade Records, Legends makes for astonishing listening even today, alien now as it was then, and perhaps even more so. Compiled in more or less chronological order with a few exceptions, the tracks range from the quietly mysterious to astonishing, in-your-face sonics. The earliest single, "Do the Mussolini," and its various B-sides initially cast the band as gloomy, dour figures interested in fooling around with tape machines, rhythm boxes and a sense of echo that always made them sound like they were recording in the deep bowels of the earth. The Velvet Underground's "Here She Comes Now" gets an intriguing revamp here, Kirk's guitar buzzing the main riff in the background. ...
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THE WORLD WON'T LISTEN from the influential alt-rock group the Smiths is a best-of compilation that is a sequel of sorts to HATFUL OF HOLLOW, the Smiths greatest-hits collection that preceded this release.
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