Kyle Bobby Dunn - Rural Route No. 2 EP (2010)

ARTIST`````Kyle Bobby Dunn

ALBUM`````Rural Route No. 2 EP
GENRE`````Drone, Ambient, Minimal
YEAR````````2010

Biography:

Dunn is a 21st century composer and performer living in Brooklyn, New York.He has premiered his highly specialized works in live settings, including exclusive outdoor and site specific environments, throughout North America for nearly a decade.

Review
An excellent drone/ambient EP from an underground Brooklyn based artist - sounds like something you could hear at a MOCA exhibit. Dissonant Distances is a rather dramatic collage of pulsating claustrophobic pressure with a lot of varied textures which is rare in this genre. Around 5 mins into this lush soundscape you can even hear really faint distorted vocals singing a spooky "pop" tune - a tiny detail that many Stars Of The Lid songs are missing if you ask me. Senium III is a sublime "getaway" into a sun-soaked, floating state where everything sounds safe and warm. The production here bears the most value since there is little or no bass so the song sounds like a forgotten vintage record - almost all drone artists today try to fill in the bass just to make the sound more fat and therefore always end up with a generic sounding record. My fav track from this artist.
The bad thing is that the whole experience is very, very short - just 20 minutes. I can imagine it lasting for at least 40 mins but since it was released on a 3" CD - it's understandable.

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Tracklist:

01 Dissonant Distances
02 Senium III

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STARS OF THE LID - AVEC LAUDENUM (1999)

MY FAVOURITE ALBUM BY THIS LEGENDARY DRONE MINIMALIST DUO.
ARTIST`````````````STARS OF THE LID
ALBUM`````````````AVEC LAUDENUM
GENRE`````````````SPACE/INDIE ROCK/AMBIENT
YEAR```````````````1999

















MY VIEW:
This is definetly my favourite Stars of the Lid album. Soft, minimalist pullsating waves of pure emotional energy. Sound that just puts a beautiful vibration into your living space. If you could live on a cloud above the city, this would be your album of choice.

ALBUM REVIEW:
Avec Laudenum moves at a glacier's pace and, slowly yet surely, calls to mind the glazed eye, vacant trance, and pure (temporary) euphoria of the heavy laudanum user. "The Atomium," a three-part work, takes all of 16 minutes to gradually build from a series of softened drones into the exquisite ambience of an orchestra lulling heaven itself to sleep, only to halt the reverie by (just as gradually) introducing ominous backmasked guitars. Of the other two pieces, "Dust Breeding" has much the same effect and feeling of transcendence, while "I Will Surround You" has slightly more of a Technicolor feel. Reportedly recorded by mail between SotL members Adam Wiltzie and Brian McBride, Avec Laudenum is a magnificent piece of minimalist ambience.

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