| Wume / Towards The Shadow |
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| Album: | Towards The Shadow | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Wume | Added: | Dec 2018 | |
| Label: | Northern Spy Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2018-12-10 | Pull Date: | 2019-02-11 |
| Week Ending: | Feb 10 | Feb 3 | Jan 27 | Jan 20 | Jan 13 | Jan 6 | Dec 30 | Dec 23 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 13, 2019: | Brownian Motion Functionary | 4. | Feb 05, 2019: | Magnetized Toner Walled Garden | |
| 2. | Feb 06, 2019: | Everything but the kitchen sink It's Okay | 5. | Feb 02, 2019: | Music Casserole Pool Of Light | |
| 3. | Feb 06, 2019: | Brownian Motion Genseq | 6. | Jan 30, 2019: | Brownian Motion Functionary |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2018-12-06 | ||
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Husband-wife duo from DC via Chicago: Fantastic analog synths with the woman singing and playing real drums (like crazy). A pure distillation of all the best things about bands like Neu, Stereolab, Trans Am. Synths and offtime mechanical beats lend a sci-fi element, especially when she delivers a monotone “robotic” singing style, but “prog” or “mathrock” also come to mind with the lack of straight 4/4 anything here. One of my favorite contemporary bands (I was lucky enough to catch them while on a weekend trip to Chicago 3 years ago), they do all of this live, no studio tricks here. Start with track 3, move to others for slightly more cerebral experience. 1)* (3:30) lovely analog blippy offtime countered with mathy drums, vocs delivered monotone with dissonant simple “melodies” 2)* (2:05) dark droney synth under light blips, a driving pounding drumbeat fades in and this becomes intense 3)** (5:17) this one is more accessible, almost indie pop, has urgency but approachability, melodic sense 4) (4:33) just a cool offtime “jam” 5)* (6:48) a strange divergence: simple tones, percussive, with a spoken word essay/dialog regarding societal structure, domination, why your job is fucking killing your humanity, delivered monotone, heady stuff 6) (5:09) very percussive beats, evolves to a pleasant one with nice vocals 7) (6:08) piano, smacks of avante jazz, upbeat fun, mixes it all up, later the woman contributes another spoken word thing 8) (5:58) slow phrased, trippy | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Walled Garden | 5. | Functionary | |||
| 2. | Blood Moon | 6. | Shadow | |||
| 3. | It's Okay | 7. | Pool Of Light | |||
| 4. | Ravel | 8. | Genseq |