| Last, David / Push Pull, the |
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| Album: | Push Pull, the | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Last, David | Added: | 02/2005 | |
| Label: | The Agriculture | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-02-27 | Pull Date: | 2005-05-01 | Charts: | RPM/Electronica, Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | 24 Apr | 17 Apr | 10 Apr | 3 Apr | 27 Mar | 20 Mar | 13 Mar | 6 Mar |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 05, 2006: | Subcutaneous Phycomycosis The Push Pull, Posca Kid, Springset | 4. | Apr 11, 2005: | Black and Blue The Push Pull | |
| 2. | Apr 23, 2005: | Morning Glory (Full Moon -- Rainy Day) Makeout Stakeout | 5. | Apr 06, 2005: | Eat Your Beats Posca Kid, The Push Pull | |
| 3. | Apr 18, 2005: | Black and Blue Posca Kid, The Push Pull | 6. | Mar 31, 2005: | Sunshine ... In The Afternoon Makeout Stakeout |
| Album Review |
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| Captain Dee Reviewed 2005-02-27 | ||
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David Last storms KZSU again, this time with a full-length studio album. You might remember David Last from his Live at Halycon EP that hit A-File last Spring. Regardless, you’re due for quite the treat. Imagine super spacey trip-hop, a la Luke Vibert, with intricate glitch-hop, dub, and even reggae influences. Last’s sound pallet resonates an ineffably “exotic” vibe that I can’t quite explain. The whole album brings to mind the image of a mysterious ceremony/party in the secret heart of a forest. As I said in my last review, it’s amazing how “organic” his music is. His dark, swirling compositions and bounce-y, catchy beats grow and evolve on the fly. That live EP I mentioned above is a bit stronger, but this release is still fuckin’ cool. Check it! Favorite Tracks: 2, 8 - Captain Dee, Feb. 2005 *1. Stringed instrumentation over hollow beat and critter-ish rumbling. (1:54) **2. Haunting ambience washes in and out under exotic instrumentation and an incredibly tight, bounce-y beat. Ghosts having a party, maybe? Dope! (4:21) 3. “Dirty” beat, underwater feel. Tweaked samples, cool chiming melody reminds me of island-style steel drums. (4:20) 4. Murky vibe. Hand-claps, rumbling, more steel drums. (4:22) 5. Goofy sounds, plucks, buzzy drums. Dance in a firelit cave? (3:08) *6. Cut-up mix of steel drums, whispering melodies, electronic pulses, and all sorts of other ambience. Party in the alien equivalent of Jamaica? *7. Reggae feel, electronic buzzing. Tight layering of downtempo beats! (4:47) **8. The album’s standout track. Infectious beat, hand-claps, intricate layers of bloopy sound effects and skittering ambience. Enchanting “European” accordion melody. Towards the end, full tragic strings over cooing backdrop. Ends with the famous “Hey kid, I’m a computer!” sample. Stunning! (8:01) 9. Echoy voice, robotic critters happily walking around, creepy laughing. Later, thick drone. Soft clicking in the background. (4:30) *10. Catchy bass and beat. Semi-sexual “mmm” samples. Upbeat, with super trippy clang-y dissonance. Later, wistful accordion. Cool! (4:31) 11. Dark, slo-mo drones, downtempo beat, muddled atmosphere. Like a drugged-out mashup of the eleven previous tracks. (2:49) 12. Tweaked, super dark tribal-ish chanting that freaks me out. Glitchy beat, beeps and bloops, other creepy vocal/laughing samples. (4:16) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Besitos | 7. | Cat-Silver | |||
| 2. | The Push Pull | 8. | Posca Kid | |||
| 3. | Secret Society | 9. | Vestigal Limbs | |||
| 4. | Badlands | 10. | Makeout Stakeout | |||
| 5. | Springset | 11. | Badlands Goodlands | |||
| 6. | Parataxic | 12. | Chiki |