| For Kings And Queens / Merz |
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| Album: | Merz | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | For Kings And Queens | Added: | May 2011 | |
| Label: | Subterranean Sonic | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2011-09-25 | Pull Date: | 2011-11-27 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Nov 13 | Oct 30 | Oct 16 | Oct 9 | Oct 2 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 08, 2011: | Orangeasm Part 8 | 4. | Oct 23, 2011: | The Crooked Spoke Adjacent Part 8 | |
| 2. | Oct 29, 2011: | Music Casserole Part 8 | 5. | Oct 12, 2011: | Cantanian Motion Part 1 | |
| 3. | Oct 26, 2011: | idk Part 7 | 6. | Oct 11, 2011: | Songs: Cantan Part 7 |
| Album Review |
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| Adam Pearson Reviewed 2011-09-25 | ||
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Slow dark ambient/noise/drone. Bowed, ringing, sustained strings and effects along guitar distortion. Quite frightening if played at a properly deafening volume. Lots of negative space and a vaguley academic feel. Music for smoke breaks at 4am. Reminds you of the time you woke up in Potsdam on a train with no phone, wallet, or keys. For fans of Tom Carter, Svarte Greiner, Xela, Decanter, Yellow Swans, Bill Orcutt, and Pete Swanson. *1. Whooshing electronics added to slow, echoey guitar dark ambient; snake-like hissing snippets of static. (6:22) 2. Heavy electrofuzz washes, deep low end, noisy distortion - percussion is a little busy/scrappy~ Yellow Swans? (4:06) 3. Soft dreamy trippy intro, low-key ambient mysterious feel. Warped by piano hammered and then flute-like overtones move this strangely into chamber territory. Ringing drone loop interacts with water droplets. (7:09) 4. Intense, dramatic spacecraft takeoff. Heavy low end. (4:20) *5. Yellow Swans-industrial thud, squiggly beat, distant vocals, layers of thick distortion and lush texture. (6:41) 6. Lots of echoey, delayed percussion. Light soft single-tone siren anchors the piece, reversed electronics and manipulated with effects. Heavily looped feedback. Epic Gregorian chants with cut up tape loops/effects over frozen drone. Epic, subtle mood piece. (15:16) 7. Dreamy guitar chords, lots of feedback and crushing low-end rumble, vibrato guitar tools around, while feedback guitars are sustained. (8:34) *8. Bend guitar strings, almost contemplative neo-freak folk, programmed noisy distorto percussion swipes in intermittently. Badgerlore. (7:03) 9. Distorted heavy guitar, what sounds like a pan flute being played through 100 delay pedals. (6:32) 10. Squeaking and tense undertone while percussion dabbles in chimes, tape loops. (2:41) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Part 1 | 6. | Part 6 | |||
| 2. | Part 2 | 7. | Part 7 | |||
| 3. | Part 3 | 8. | Part 8 | |||
| 4. | Part 4 | 9. | Part 9 | |||
| 5. | Part 5 | 10. | Part 10 |