Sumac, Love in Shadow | ★★★ 1/2
Keiji Haino and Sumac, American Dollar Bill – Keep Facing Sideways, You’re Too Hideous To Look at Face On | ★★★★
Sumac is an extreme metal power trio with seemingly no boundaries, jazz-like interplay and a hankering for noises both brittle and extreme, sparse and overwhelming. Leader Aaron Turner – former of Isis – stresses in interviews that “heavy” can mean a lot more than just riff bludgeon, and Sumac’s big-tent vision is patient and satisfying, reminiscent of what labelmates Tortoise did for rock music: just replace vinyl-collector obsessions with krautrock,...
Keiji Haino and Sumac, American Dollar Bill – Keep Facing Sideways, You’re Too Hideous To Look at Face On | ★★★★
Sumac is an extreme metal power trio with seemingly no boundaries, jazz-like interplay and a hankering for noises both brittle and extreme, sparse and overwhelming. Leader Aaron Turner – former of Isis – stresses in interviews that “heavy” can mean a lot more than just riff bludgeon, and Sumac’s big-tent vision is patient and satisfying, reminiscent of what labelmates Tortoise did for rock music: just replace vinyl-collector obsessions with krautrock,...
- 9/24/2018
- by Christopher R. Weingarten
- Rollingstone.com
Doubles, the first LP by Irish guitarist Cian Nugent, is a major proclamation of new young talent. As ambitious as it is evolved, Doubles is a 45-minute album comprised of only two tracks--the patient, practiced guitar-and-electronics meditation "Peaks & Troughs" and the longer "Sixes & Sevens," a brilliant movement that builds quickly from start-and-stop picking and percussion to glorious full-band redemption.
"Sixes & Sevens" actually works as a bit of a seesaw and a bit of a maze; it moves between exclamatory bursts and ruminative passages every few minutes, occasionally balancing the two in brief, perfect moments. Nugent actually excised three of the songs more bustling minutes for a new video by director Dylan Phillips. Here, the maze metaphor works, as Nugent's springy composition scores a short and speeding tour along the threshold between a city's natural and industrial spaces.
We spoke with Nugent about "Sixes & Sevens" and guitarists via e-mail.
In making this video,...
"Sixes & Sevens" actually works as a bit of a seesaw and a bit of a maze; it moves between exclamatory bursts and ruminative passages every few minutes, occasionally balancing the two in brief, perfect moments. Nugent actually excised three of the songs more bustling minutes for a new video by director Dylan Phillips. Here, the maze metaphor works, as Nugent's springy composition scores a short and speeding tour along the threshold between a city's natural and industrial spaces.
We spoke with Nugent about "Sixes & Sevens" and guitarists via e-mail.
In making this video,...
- 6/3/2011
- by Grayson Currin
- ifc.com
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