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| | | olde english spelling bee (usa) #oesb-16 lp alice cohen “walking up walls” long playing record - somersaults on staircase
- tiger tears
- don’t pick the pieces up from the ground
- cadillacs in swimming pools
- liquid letters
- circus tricks
- anemia
- walking up walls
- tin shoes
- vapor eyes
- peppermint disaster
- tincture of ambergris
- sleepwalker’s parade
- cracked cloud horizon
- luminous fades
- memories of glaciers
| august 2009 release ; welll-done lp of fractured, bedroom psych from alice cohen ...
while the de rigeur comparisons to ariel pink et.al are inevitable, ms. cohen has her own take on things to offer here ; her guitar playing is solid (albeit drowned in array of metalloid flanges & casioid grit) & the production values here are high enough for the listener to glean the individual components of each song ...
thematically, i’m hearing a strong laurel canyon influence, rather than the post steely dan cocaine-trip wasteland mined by pink, lending a softer, dreamlike edge to the proceedings ... i’m torn between this & the recent circuit des yeux lp on de stijl as my come-down lp these days, both shining a light in an otherwise dark corner of contemporary sound i’d have otherwise neglected ... |
| | olde english spelling bee press release... |
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oesb-16 alice cohen "walking up walls" lp
"walking up walls" is the second solo album from long-time musician and visual artist alice cohen. in contrast to her previous studio efforts these are raw home recordings with an intensely personal vibe. the sixteen short song-sketches alternate between densely layered shoegaze burners and shimmering, ethereal drifters. exploring shadowy corners and using the musical equivalent of automatic writing - this was considered to be a sonic diary and not originally intended for release. for reference points think "pink opaque" era cocteau twins filtered through the early 90's lens of new zealanders like alastair galbraith & sandra bell. |
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