The Goslings
"Spaceheater" CDR EP
Asaurus
Records
Genres: drone, experimental, ambient
Asaurus Records
PO Box 0664
Allen Park MI
48101-0664
Aug 8 - 14 2005 |
The Spaceheater EP, from the respected-though-young Goslings,
sees the husband/wife duo creating more of their signature spacey
atmospherics. This fits under the experimental/noise tag, but it's
on the more droney, sound-sculpture side of things. Deep within waves
of feedback and distortion you can occasionally hear hidden melodies
and moments of tunefulness, but they are fleeting - the music is more
about getting whisked away into the Goslings' land of
meditative ambiance. I really enjoy the calm aspects of
"Statuette," which hides moments of pop under layers of
atmospheric noise and then closes off with an out-of-context field
recording of some sort. The slowed down voices in "Lillian,"
meanwhile, seems strangely foreign and creepy, but it's the thirteen
minute "In May" that is the main attraction on Spaceheater - it
is a varied epic that sounds like it could have been an alternate
score to Eraserhead.
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Matt Shimmer [Vitals:
4 tracks, distributed by the
label, released 2005] |
