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CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS - Communal Rust
Community Library
CD // £9.99
FOLK / AMERICANA
Released: Feb 2007
Catalogue Number: CL13
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Christmas Decorations is the seasonal (well, it's only a few weeks late!) moniker of Nick Forte and Steve Silverstein, who in their time have managed to rack up a couple of releases for the ever-lovely Kranky label and a recent appearance on 12k, but here they are on Portland's homely Community Library, and there could be no better place for their hazy vision of electrically manipulated rock music. Following hot on the heels of the killer Project Perfect album, 'Communal Rust' is a more than appropriate continuation of ComLib's exploration into experimental (but never exclusively so) sound. Drone, minimal, guitar manipulation - call it what you will but I suppose it is always going to have a chiselled out pocket of followers and appear a little out of reach to the rest of us. However Forte and Silverstein have dropped in enough references throughout this record so that even the most academically challenged among us should be able to throw in a line and crawl on in. In 'Closer to the Carpet' beneath the digital hisses and crackles I can hear New Order or the Cocteau Twins, 'Aphid Text' shows there's something of Robert Johnson deep down below the hotwired drum machine gurgles and on 'Twig Harpoon' I'm sure I can hear the ghosts of shoegaze-heroes Slowdive somewhere in the haze. This is the closest I think you can come to a digitally produced counterpart to the current new-psychedelic-folk scene, while the forest dwellers are throwing down their abstract improvisations on 4-track tape, Forte and Silverstein have done the same with a laptop and the results I think are utterly captivating. Notably, over the last two years or so laptop producers have sought to distance themselves from the tired sounds of Germany circa-2000, that over-done glitch we all got so sick of, and 'Communal Rust' is the perfect example of the new wave of digital sound. Instead of disregarding digital production altogether, the duo have instead modernised their output, and they've managed that by looking back, by plumbing the depths of music history. A startling and somewhat calming listen, let these fragments of time take you piece by piece into a distant world - gorgeous, and highly recommended for fans of Tim Hecker, Machinefabriek or Aaron Martin!

• Tracks on CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS - Communal Rust:
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