| Adam Noriega Amado / Beer in a Handful of Dust |
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| Album: | Beer in a Handful of Dust | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Adam Noriega Amado | Added: | 05/2020 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
| Recent Airplay |
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| 1. | Thu, 14 May: | DJ Away Stranded at Settembrini's | ||||
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2020-05-13 | ||
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KZSU-affiliated noise: this is a solo album by a former KZSU General Manager and member of The Noriegas. (File under "Adam," it's a pseudonym.) This reminds me a lot of cassette culture ~2010 or before: psychedelic, gnarly, and eerie. I want to listen while driving slowly through a ghost town in the Southwest. This would've had good company on KZSU's old tape blog (cassettes.kzsu.fm). RIYL Lavatone, early His Name Is Alive instrumentals, Julian Lynch, Sun Araw. Favorites: 3, 9, 13, 14. No discernable words, no FCCs. 1. (0:40)—Lo-fi sci-fi transmissions. 2. (5:13)—Slow echoing single-string guitar picking, bright keyboard melody, churning rhythm. 3. *(2:04)—Desolate liquid guitar. 4. (4:37)—Fast clipping strumming, hiss, bursts of distortion. 5. (1:16)—Wah noise, drone wash. 6. (3:17)—Jittery echo bass. 7. (5:11)—Field recordings. Atonal angular guitar, fuzzier guitar. Post-rock band practice in 1994. Gets chaotic. 8. (3:17)—Field recording of indiscernable background conversation. Keyboard, space guitar. 9. *(2:56)—Crunchy emo-esque guitar loop, faded. Quite pretty. 10. (3:12)—Sample of a Noriegas live recording, run through distortion, with keyboard on top. 11. (4:15)—Choppy, noisy guitar with some loopy wah. 12. (4:58)—Slow, bendy, Loren Connors–type guitar. 13. *(2:35)—Deep, ominous drone vibrations. Hiss. Higher soft tones letting a little unsettling light in. 14. *(4:13)—Slow build, dark but melodic, like a shredded fragment of a psychedelic post-rock song. | ||
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