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| What are they saying about Interbellum? |
| December 11, 2008 |
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| Boomkat says "These compositions subtly weave thorny electronic treatments into a slow-burning exchange of melody between the two performers, ensuring that the lyrical, thoughtful instrumentation never spills out into cumbersome sentimentality." Washington City Paper profiles Interbellum this week and notes that "the record, filled with sprawling but sparse instrumentals, is the musical equivalent of a fugue state." |
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| Interbellum - Dec. 8 |
| November 22, 2008 |
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| New music from Interbellum is posted now on the player. Brendan Burke, the man behind Interbellum, has been a producer and engineer for Monomen, Screeching Weasel, Freakwater, Nomads and others as well as an engineer for artists like Peter Brotzmann, Roy Montgomery, Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark and Peter Kowald. The new digital album is called "Over All of Spain the Sky is Clear" and will be out on Dec. 8. Yes, Starlings! Yes! rightly calls the album "A beautifully searching, yet confident record of quiet strings, piano & occasional laptop noises & field recordings." |
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| FSS on Earplug |
| October 24, 2008 |
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| The Earplug
newsletter has run a feature on FSS. The sordid past of the founder is revealed and the future is glimpsed. I'm particularly taken by author Michael Byrne's description of Cristal's "placate-and-slash dynamic".
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| Pitchfork Reviews Wrnlrd |
| October 13, 2008 |
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| Pitchfork reviewed the debut FSS recording from the one and only Wrnlrd. Marc Masters notes that "Wrnlrd's distortion chimes more than it drills, buzzes more than it burrows, and creates a texture that has been rightly compared to the ambient sheens of Fennesz and Tim Hecker." |
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| Cristal "Re-Ups" Out Now on LP/ Digital Album |
| August 18, 2008 |
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| Cristal has been long overlooked. "Re-Ups" is their second album and a quantum leap for the trio. Mastered and cut to lacquer by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Services, it's a finely honed collection of tones and clusters that can caress and cut. The 180 gram vinyl LP comes in an obsidian gatefold jacket with a download code included. Some of you may recall Cristal's Bobby Donne from Labradford, Aix Em Klemm or Breadwinner, suffice it to say the Donne connection to quality sound control remains unbroken. Textura gets it." |
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| Mean Man's Dream is now available. |
| July 28, 2008 |
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| The Dutch band Gore have been overlooked for too long, and FSS is pleased to release their crucial 1987 release "Mean Man's Dream." The digital album is available for purchase and downloading.
"Bitch Magnet, Slint, Bastro, Don Caballero, Dazzlingkillmen and about a dozen other outfits of that stripe all owe Gore a large debt of gratitude, for they were all able to add their own touches to Gore’s simple formula and make it their own. Black metal, as a whole, should also be thanking Gore for helping to voice miserable, horrifying thoughts into a cohesive musical whole; scrape away the layers of distortion and screaming, and you will inevitably find the same elements of songcraft standing bolt upright in the damning sun" says
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| Boomkat now carries Wrnlrd |
| July 17, 2008 |
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| Boomkat in Manchester, England is a superlative online store and they are now selling MP3 and FLAC downloads of Oneiromantical War. Here's their (highly insightful!) take on the new album:
"this album melts a whole arsenal of unlikely instruments (like banjos, samplers and violins) in with a host of more expected noise machines like guitars and basses, to produce a sound so serrated, so entrenched in brightly finished filth, it'll actually make your ears hurt switching it off. Listening to the world without that coating of noxious, trebly noise feels wrong afterwards and soon you'll be rushing back to the frosty echo chambers of 'Grave Gown' and the detuned twenty-minutes of sonic GBH that makes up 'War'."
All you folks in the UK can now order something a little closer to home, if so inclined. |
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| Oneiromantical War available now. |
| July 3, 2008 |
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| The debut FSS LP from Wrnlrd is available in stores now. And you can order the 180 gram LP or download the album right here. Wrnlrd has done interviews in Pitchfork, The Left Hand Pathand Washington City Paper.
Here's what the highly esteemed Mimaroglu Music Sales site had to say about the new album:
"extremely gratifying blast of home-recorded, anti-social din ; tin-foil-thick guitar buzz in the upper-registers, drums being played with bones (possibly by a caveman, or at least one of his descendants) & what could almost be called vocals,were they not buried so deep in the mix as to add only an extra layer of fuzz / texture to the overall morass ..."
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| FSS is an independent label that concentrates on skull capture in the soundworld |
| July 2, 2008 |
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| Flingcosound.com sells high quality WAV files that are DRM-free as downloads and selected albums available as limited edition, 180 gram vinyl LPs. Vinyl releases come with coupons enclosed so vinyl buyers can download the digital version, too. There will be four releases in 2008. Listeners can also subscribe to the label's offerings and guarantee themselves early delivery of releases, bonus subscriber-only music and tasty treats.
Digital outlets like iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, EMusic and others carry FSS releases and a number of high quality stores and mail order services around the world stock the LPs.
FSS can stand for any number of things. Right now it's Flingco Sound System. |
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NEW RELEASES |
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Over All of Spain the Sky is Clear
December 8, 2008
Long form music that gazes across smoldering ruins, troubled waters and deserted shores. Piano and cello play treacly melodies accompanied by treated sounds and fractious electronics. This is charred chamber music. Doom Chamber.
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Re-Ups
August 18, 2008
..this trio seems to break the sound down into the smallest possible parts, creating, hyper detailed microscopic droneworlds that virtually REQUIRE headphones... Aquarius Records
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Mean Man's Dream
July 28, 2008
Everything you ever loved about heavy music - riff, feedback, rhythm and torque - condensed into one relentless album unsullied by vocals. "Gore are the glorious nadir. The deadest end." Melody Maker 1987
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Oneiromantical War
June 24, 2008
The sixth album from the enigmatic Wrnlrd is the debut FSS release. "Schizophrenic and deliriously damaged, some of the most far out 'black metal' we’ve heard." Aquarius Records
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