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230 DIVISADERO - 230 Divisadero
Locust
CD // £13.99
FOLK / AMERICANA
Released: Oct 2007
Catalogue Number: LOCUST97CD

230 DIVISADERO - 230 Divisadero, Locust

After a self-released EP of drone atmospherics, the duo of Britain's Matt Shaw and Monaco's Nick Grey are set to unleash their first proper full-length collection for Locust, who describe the 230 Divisadero as 'transcontinental' - as far as I'm aware they're both still in Europe right? Between the two of them Shaw and Grey evoke a kind of dusky, ambient intensity, tampering with a host of instruments and assorted sound-making devices. The music here is effectively in 'song' format, but there's a far looser feel to the composition of these pieces, perhaps due to an absence of drums and the inclusion of electronic reshaping and abstract production techniques. The looping piano phrase that runs throughout 'Hands' maintains a sense of structure whilst all manner of effects and stray signals lope around it. The slow motion vocal style at times recalls David Sylvian's Blemish in all its emotional resonance and curious detachment from the music, but there's a more ominous, almost gothic tone to what's going on in the background, with bottom-heavy guitar drones that clearly take influence from the Southern Lord crowd. By the time you get to 'Leri Achrar' it's all gone a bit The Devil Rides Out, with woozy, incantatory spoken-word vocals and a gloomy hum of guitar distortion, and as the album progresses from this point it becomes clear that the apocalyptic influence projected by the likes of David Tibet and Steven Stapleton looms over this album.

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