Mj Guider / Precious Systems
Album: | Precious Systems | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Mj Guider | Added: | Sep 2016 | |
Label: | Kranky |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2016-10-04 | Pull Date: | 2016-12-04 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
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Week Ending: | Dec 4 | Nov 27 | Nov 13 | Nov 6 | Oct 16 | Oct 9 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Jun 01, 2017: | Unusual Programming
Evencycle, Lit Negative |
4. | Nov 09, 2016: | Brownian Motion
Lit Negative |
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2. | Nov 30, 2016: | Brownian Motion
Lit Negative |
5. | Nov 05, 2016: | Life Aquatic
Evencycle |
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3. | Nov 23, 2016: | Brownian Motion
Lit Negative |
6. | Oct 15, 2016: | Music Casserole
Triple Black, Fiction Control |
Album Review
DJ Away
Reviewed 2016-09-25
Reviewed 2016-09-25
MJ Guider is New Orleans' Melissa Guion, and this is her first LP following a tape on Constellation Tatsu. It sounds kind of like Grouper fronting Cocteau Twins in a very humid place; the guitars, synth textures, and vocals are all extremely deep and reverberant. Guion says this record has its seeds in science fiction and “the juxtaposition of the natural with industrial and commercial constructs” in her hometown. This is a cryptic, murky, ambient mutation of new wave which swaps out chilliness in favor of extreme heat. I love it. Favorites: 1, 2, 3, 8, 9. No FCCs detected.
1. *(5:36)—Slow, intense. Buzzing synths give way to limpid drones and a cavernous, minimal beat. Really catchy.
2. *(3:40)—Fast, propulsive, suspenseful. Something about “drives the driver.” Reminds me of Disappears' “Elite Typical.”
3. *(2:42)—Ambient, beatless, deep, and beautiful.
4. (3:33)—Slow, dark, with a vintage new wave beat. Warped percussion and beaming synths.
5. (1:55)—Beatless. Deep and dreamy like track 3, but more menacing.
6. (3:26)—Beatless. Electronic piano, layered vocals, deep drone.
7. (4:32)—Really slow, like watching a VHS at 1/10th speed.
8. *(10:24)—Spaced-out, introverted, watery house. Four-on-the-floor beat pans across the stereo field. A little off-kilter, very gauzy. “Wake up, wake up.”
9. *(4:20)—Medium-slow, languid. The poppiest song on here. Gorgeous, very Cocteau Twins, except with deeper and less prominent vocals.
1. *(5:36)—Slow, intense. Buzzing synths give way to limpid drones and a cavernous, minimal beat. Really catchy.
2. *(3:40)—Fast, propulsive, suspenseful. Something about “drives the driver.” Reminds me of Disappears' “Elite Typical.”
3. *(2:42)—Ambient, beatless, deep, and beautiful.
4. (3:33)—Slow, dark, with a vintage new wave beat. Warped percussion and beaming synths.
5. (1:55)—Beatless. Deep and dreamy like track 3, but more menacing.
6. (3:26)—Beatless. Electronic piano, layered vocals, deep drone.
7. (4:32)—Really slow, like watching a VHS at 1/10th speed.
8. *(10:24)—Spaced-out, introverted, watery house. Four-on-the-floor beat pans across the stereo field. A little off-kilter, very gauzy. “Wake up, wake up.”
9. *(4:20)—Medium-slow, languid. The poppiest song on here. Gorgeous, very Cocteau Twins, except with deeper and less prominent vocals.
Track Listing
1. | Lit Negative | 6. | Former Future Beings | |||
2. | Triple Black | 7. | Their Voices Clear Now | |||
3. | Surfacing First | 8. | Evencycle | |||
4. | White Alsatian | 9. | Fiction Control | |||
5. | Second Surface | . |