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Skeletons Out - "In Remembrance of Me"

Audio Clip


"In Remembrance of Me"  is the debut release by the Boston
based duo Skeletons Out,  comprised of Howard Stelzer and 
Jay Sullivan. Stelzer and Sullivan make use of tapes and vinyl
 respectively,  using these spare, deceptively crude means to
conjure strikingly developed,  transportive aural landscapes
which are equal parts lush and expansive and claustorphobic
 and atrophied. The record begins with breakdown, as swarming,
hissing tapes flutter,  and amidst stuttering,  resonant clatter
 a rusted automaton buckles, faltering, afraid, before pistons
 fire anew and it rises,  heralding the slow imploding collapses
which will inevitably follow, as though rising from this detritus.

Stelzer and Sullivan traverse the same barren netherworld
valleys as Mirror at their most blasted,  while foraging deep
 within coppices akin to the natural decay states which  inform
 the aesthetics of corrosion at work in much of Loren Chasse
 and Jim Haynes' output.  Think of "In Remembrance of Me"
as a fugue caked in mud, one which beckons you deeper
and deeper down into its manifold ravaged and entropic depths.
Mastered by Ernst Karel with artwork by Justin Meyers.


CD
(ltd. 500)

$12ppd worldwide














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