Poss, Robert / Distortion Is Truth
Album: Distortion Is Truth   Collection:General
Artist:Poss, Robert   Added:Apr 2003
Label:Trace Elements  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2003-07-14 Pull Date: 2003-09-15
Week Ending: Sep 14 Sep 7 Aug 31 Aug 24 Aug 17 Aug 10 Aug 3 Jul 27
Airplays: 2 2 2 1 3 3 1 6

Recent Airplay
1. Dec 12, 2005: Distraction-Limited
Memphis/Little Rock
4. May 28, 2004: Distraction-Limited
That Same Dream Again
2. Aug 26, 2005: Distraction-Limited
That Same Dream Again
5. May 16, 2004: rust belt
Memphis/Little Rock
3. Jul 08, 2005: Distraction-Limited
Azulene
6. Sep 12, 2003: Stirling's Approxiamtion
You Were Relentless

Album Review
johnn
Reviewed 2003-07-16
GREAT! Ranging from wonderfully twangy ambient textures to dancy post-punk songs, this album is a fantastic retrospective of solo experiments from Band of Susans guitarist Robert Poss, a punk rocker who discovered John Cage and minimalism. Most of the tracks are great, though I prefer the drony experiments over the songs. Think also of My Bloody Valentine.
1, 2, 5, 6, 10

1. beautiful looped twangy drony guitar texture.
2. heavily echoed guitar blips, robots communicating in a cavern
3. steady overdriven drums with groovin bassline and twangy guitars
4. synth twang drone
5. midtempo groove with drums, dancy bassline, and vocals
6. sonic youth groove, drony bassline with evolving guitar harmonies
7. deep bell-like drone from the bottom of a bottomless abyss
8. slow, wandering, slightly island-y guitar fantasy 9. synth drums, feedbacking guitar harmonics
10. droning distorted twangy guitars. god bless my bloody valentine!
11. like #11 but more rhythmic drone
12. guitar riff with vocals
13. mean dense bassline, drums, and 80s sounding chorus-y guitar
14. percussion with screeching guitar feedback.
15. nice wall of loops and noises and riffs over a steady bassline
16. pop song with drums, drony guitars. not bad.

Track Listing
1. Brakhage   9. The Level Above Live
2. Radio Free Albemuth   10. Memphis/Little Rock
3. You Were Relentless   11. Tinkling Live
4. Henix Sambolo   12. Improvised Duo Live
5. That Same Dream Again   13. Where Do Things Stand
6. Azulene   14. You Know the Drill
7. Managment Confidential   15. Zener Shunt
8. Showbiz Live   16. Regret