| Cantu-Ledesma, Jefre / Love Is A Stream |
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| Album: | Love Is A Stream | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Cantu-Ledesma, Jefre | Added: | Feb 2011 | |
| Label: | Type Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2011-02-13 | Pull Date: | 2011-04-17 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Apr 17 | Apr 10 | Apr 3 | Mar 27 | Mar 20 | Mar 13 | Mar 6 | Feb 27 |
| Airplays: | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 17, 2023: | Well Mixed Stained Glass Body | 4. | Feb 13, 2018: | Waste FM Stained Glass Body | |
| 2. | Feb 22, 2020: | Being as an ocean White Dwarf Butterfly / Womb Night / River Like Spine / Wild Moon and Sea / Mirr | 5. | Jul 13, 2017: | Neural facilitation Where You End & I Begin | |
| 3. | Aug 10, 2019: | blown subwoofer Where You End & I Begin | 6. | Jun 28, 2016: | Magnetized Toner White Dwarf Butterfly |
| Album Review |
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| Adam Pearson Reviewed 2011-02-10 | ||
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Shoegazer, lush, melodic guitar, loops, and effects. Album of the year. Album of the decade. Best album since Loveless. I recently reviewed Xela’s remix version of this album (Twells lends vocals on 4 and 6 of this one) and spelled out why Cantu-Ledesma is a legend, but in case you missed that, he’s a local, influential noise/post/drone/ambient rocker with ties to Tarentel and Root Strata. Yeah, it’s noise but it’s also so strikingly beautiful that I got my mom to like it. This one’s for you, indie rock brigade. No FCCs. *1. Celestial ascension up to the Pearly Gates. Kevin Shields is there to greet you. Brick is playing Badminton with Zoroaster. (5:28) 2. Melancholic synths against harsh, sharp guitar. Brief. (1:24) *3. Gurgling, hypnotic, droning fuzz with ringing, effects-soaked keys adding in a little melody. (4:49) 4. Gradual, slow ambient (as in background, outdoor) noise loops into itself, erupting into melodic, sustained guitar wash. (3:15) 5. Understated, subtly looping melody, distant, fragile. (2:28) *6. Thunderous electro noise beginning gives way to airy, swirly loops of guitar, drowning vocals, and waves of bliss. (5:14) 7. Thicker, jagged guitar texture and looped synth. (1:05) *8. Texture-heavy, lush layers of looped guitars, spindly little synth patterns barely perceivable. Weightless floating. I wish this would go on forever. (5:21) 9. Drifting ambient loveliness. (1:05) *10. Less assaulting in its distortion; goes through a looped bridge and then comes back to the initial soundscape of beauty and makes me want to roll around on the ground. (4:53) 11. Reverbed, echoey guitar ambience is slowly enveloped by washes of synths and electronic arpeggi. (5:00) 12. Restrained, ominous, electronic squibbles and noodling, subdued ambient drone loop. (4:39) | ||
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