Italian electro-acoustic composer Andrea Belfi once recorded himself shaking the contents of a house.
His countryman Stefano Pilia played punk before discovering drones. Kentucky’s David Grubbs blasted underage Eighties hardcore with Squirrelbait and is now a professorial presence on the experimental scene. Dust & Mirrors combines tonal minimalist repetition with hanging cadences of back-porch guitar and Grubbs’ sung-spoken poetry.
The Headlock reshapes a riff that could fill stadiums.
The album is unashamedly beautiful but never banal, fiercely intelligent but never obscure.
(17/3/14)
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