Girl Talk - Night Ripper

It's been a long few weeks - so just listen.

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The Bran Flakes - I Have Hands

The Bran Flakes fill up an odd space for me, falling between the giddy-happy heavily-sampled electronic feel that I often fall in love with, and, from there, into the surreal. They had, at one point, a site for the pure purpose of confusing visitors - while it's sadly missing now, the Bran Flakes are alive and strong with their peculiar and energetic brand of plunderphonics. Worth a listen if you're a big fan of sampling.

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Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends

I can't stop listening to this - then again, the album sounds a great deal as to what I might imagine alien mind control might sound like. Lots of electronic, psychedelic sounds, with what may be a plastic recorder sounding off in the background occasionally. They even got their mitts on Aesop Rock at one point, to convince you that the pod-people were your friends.

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Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum

"Deep in the woods of western Pennsylvania vocoders hum amongst the flowers and synths bubble under the leaf-strewn ground while flutes whistle in the wind and beats bounce to the soft drizzle of a warm acid rain. As the sun peeks out from between the clouds, the organic aural concoction of Black Moth Super Rainbow starts to glisten above the trees."

Dandelion Gum is something that would be fantastically interesting to listen to if you happened to have sound -> sight synthenesia, but, for those of use without that remarkably rare neurological condition, it's still beautiful to hear. Analog electronic instruments, psychedelic elements with a dash of folk - this album is something like what we may imagine beings from another planet would produce in an attempt to emulate us. It's strange and otherworldly, with a few earthly tethers that tell us what it's trying to do, but, still making a great many uncomfortable with how perverse it seems make things.

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