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The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside
Monday, October 20 2008 @ 05:16 AM PDT
Contributed by: Edgar Kerval

Baby, Its Cold Inside

Artist: The Fun Years United States

Title: Baby, Its Cold Inside

Label: Barge Recordings United States

Genre: Abstract / Experimental / Ambient

Tracklist:

01 My Lowville
02 Auto Show Day Of The Dead
03 Fucking Milwaukee's Been Hesher Forever
04 Re: We're Again Buried Under
05 The Surge Is Working


Very nice disc made up from such an imaginative and creative duo of Ben Recht and Isaac Sparks, which are working together in the experimental field and having gotten recognition due the way as focusing each release. They have arrived with their new album called “Baby, its cold inside” and what a more appropriated title for the music developed here. It’s like a long in deep work to the winter nights through desolated landscapes and having the sensation to be dominated by most melancholic obsessions and desperate visions. “Baby, its cold inside” contains 5 chapters in which the isolationism and perpetual darkness are developed in an almost perfect way.

“My loveville” opens with an icy scraping texture and minimal tone that speaks volumes about loneliness and paranoid stillness. It wavers little and finds the effectiveness in that steady approach. This track contains such minimal sounds evolving all the time, and giving you some sensations as to be in another world due penetrating atmospheres which are handled in this one. Coming next is the second track called “Auto show day of the dead” built into repetitive piano passages, loops which still carries such melancholic atmosphere, evoking pure sadness and senses of vacuity. Through the third track “fucking milwake’s been thresher forever”, drone elements marks its presence generating dissonant harmonies through layers upon layers, but with diverse sounds wrapped in such repetitive based lines.

Let’s go to experience the 4th composition called “Re: were again buried under” and from its own nature the repetitive sounds, loops and drone passages seems to be predominant aspects here. But this time, this duo worked in an alien/cosmic atmosphere so in deep and abrasive. The whole sounds seem to be abducted you to another parallel universe. at moments the whole music reminds me to ld 70’s ambient projects due the way as the track is developed here. An amazing composition, perhaps the best one due its seductive surrealism handled from start to finish.

Closing this release is “the surge is working” it starts with a very interesting acoustic guitar elements and suddenly the track begin its own transformation into more rhythmic structures and ambient sounds capes. In general the use of guitars by Ben Recht and turntable handled by Isaac sparks, which are handled in a balanced way with the rest of elements such as loops, piano, and drones makes of this release a provocative experimental piece of minimalism drone ambient music. With high moments in the whole tracks. This release comes in a nice digipack wrapped into black and colored designs.
” …Feel The Cold Inside…Feel The Desolation Embracing You...”

     



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