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CL24 Gulls |
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CL23 Atole "Strike Zone" 7" |
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CL22 DJ C & Zulu "Darling" 12" |
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CL17 DJ C feat. Zulu "Body Work" 10" |
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CL16V Units History of the Units LP |
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CL16 Units History of the Units CD |
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CL15 Strategy "Future Rock" 12" |
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CL14 Rolan Vega Documentary CD |
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CL13 Christmas Decorations Communal Rust CD |
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CL12 Zulu & DJ C "Animal Attraction" 7" |
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CL11 Project Perfect PM+ CD |
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CL10 Jefrey Leighton Brown Change Has Got to Come! CD |
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CL9 Reanimator Special Powers CD |
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CL8 Reanimator Reanimator 12" |
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CL7 Evolutionary Jass Band Change of Scene CD |
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CL6 Solenoid "Night Beach" b/w "Sam Clam's Disco" 12" |
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CL4 Eats Tapes "Dinosaur Days" 12" |
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CL3 nudge "stack" b/w "div" 12" |
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CL2 Sawako+ Omnibus CDEP |
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CL1 Strategy "World House" b/w "I Have to Do This Thing" 12" |
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Christmas Decorations
Communal Rust
CD, mp3
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Tracklist:
1. Upstage the Drips
2. Closer to Carpet
3. Twig Harpoon
4. Aphid Text
5. Browning Out
6. Clay Margins
7. Mice Over Feathers
8. Mirrored Mold
9. The Umbrella Fell
Christmas Decorations' second full-length Communal Rust should please fans who have been following the lineage of processed-guitar heroes and anti-heroes (Fennesz, Ambarchi, et al). But where those icons are making forays into drone and noise, Christmas Decorations are taking the other fork in the road, back towards the melancholic, crisp strum of post-punk and indie, and back towards an atomized, crumpled, improvised sound design.
Communal Rust documents essential "anti-guitar guitar music." The songs revolve around a dichotomy between guitar-pedal-and-computer induced fragmentation, on one hand, and the intricate, melodic guitar motifs referenced to classic post-punk and forgotten lo-fi indie music. Pull away the layers of glitches, snippets, trills, and echoes and you might discover a core guitar disposition that recalls the contemplative, steely tone of early Factory, 4AD, or New Zealand music. That's not to say that the duo is boxed in by reference points; moreso, these influences are exerting the most gravitational pull on the band's temptations to commit all-out, fractional sonic disintegration.
This tension between new and old, rough and smooth, or chaos versus control, puts the band squarely in the ComLib sensibility of sublimely balancing problem and accessibility in music. Following on the band's debut release, the criminally underappreciated Model 91 (kranky 2002), Communal Rust marks a key point in the band's development and is a crucial addition to any collection of experimental music.
Artist Info
PDF Version of Promo Sheet
Reviews & Press
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