john onyskin
What a pleasant surprise from one of my fave Sactoe bands. They slowed down a bit and the volume isn`t cranked to 11(like it used to be). Real melodic some where when Shoegaze meets Spaghetti Western.All I gotta say is keep it up..
What would it take to save our souls when we're already lost
You could say we had it all
You could say we had it all
Make up your mind
Was it nothing but a lie
What would it take to save our souls when we're already lost
You could say we had it all
Make up your mind
Don't make me say it twice
Fall from grace in my arms always
For this mistake we will fall always
We're already lost
Make up your mind
Don't make me say, Don't make me say it twice
Fall from grace in my arms always
For this mistake we will fall always
Everyday you tell me don't worry
But I still wait for you
Give me a chance to make you feel strong again
Give me a chance and I'll make you feel normal
Keep it together
Stop spinning you're out of control
Keep it together
Stop spinning you're out of it
about
Electro Group
The Rancho-Research Sessions 7”
In the words of Dennis Yudt:
Here are the first new Electro Group - Sacramento, CA’s finest proponent of blissed-out shoegaze - recordings in many a moon.
In speaking with the band, they revealed that these are tracks that didn’t quite fit alongside their forthcoming full-length. They explained that the band loved the tracks and wanted to do something with these orphans.
‘Orphans’ is a totally appropriate description of these two songs. Like orphans in real life, one must beat them into shape to get them to work. Also, they’re soooo cute! Look at those soot-covered rapscallions with their tattered threads and dented gruel cups. And such big eyes!
Having heard my share of Electro Group over the past 15-odd years, these two songs certainly are a departure from their beloved wall-of-electricity, a blanket of static that saturates and morphs sweet melodies of guitarist Tim’s plaintive choirboy vocals into sometimes harrowing territory.
On both tracks here, the feedback takes a hike, stealthily replaced by cello, viola and all sorts of cool electronics on the A-side ’Ranger’ - a song that demands to be listened to with headphones on in the dark. There’s a lot going on in its four-plus minutes; the sad resignation of the lyrics; Ian’s sublime bass line propelling and enhancing the melody; the layers of fantasia deep in the background; and a hook that is both naggingly familiar and elusive. Bee-you-tee-ful, as old people would say.
Departing even further from the Group-sound, ’Chomp’ hits the floor staggering out a guitar hook that connects-the-dots between spaghetti western, surf and a dang-near flamenco flourish with lyrics that I think are about me, especially the ’keep it together/stop spinning you’re out of control‘, which is basically about how every weekend comes to a halt around these parts. The verses are a Mobius-strip of spiky pop, not unlike Wire circa- Chairs Missing, like if M.C. Escher played a mean Strat.
Electro Group succeeds at keeping enough of their three personalities shining on both these tracks while pointing towards a way to a new sonic world that fits them just peachy. The most overtly psych tracks these kids have laid to wax.
Ranger was produced, recorded, and mixed by Raymond Richards
Engineered by Mike Post at Red Rockets Glare in Rancho Park, CA
Viola on Ranger by Kaitlin Wolfberg / cello on Ranger by Ken Oak
Chomp was recorded by electro group at research sound recordings
mastered by Mark Chalecki at Little Red Book
Thanks to Adam Hervey. None of this happens without him.
This is Research Sound Recordings 004
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Wow! Y'all have outdone yourselves on this one. It is pure shoegaze noise bliss. Swirling like I did in my acid days to MBV. It's retro, it's modern, it's disconnect jagged edge. Custom Made In 1968
supported by 8 fans who also own “The Rancho - Research Sessions 7"”
just wow, still rips even today. so happy I was exposed to this sound in the 90's. it's genuinely colored all my music tastes from then onwards. CaveDwellerz
supported by 7 fans who also own “The Rancho - Research Sessions 7"”
This is absolutely nothing like loveless. It's its own thing completely, and comparisons are kind of baffling.
It's more Isn't Anything covered by the Swirlies IF the comparison must be made, because this is it's own masterpiece.The sounds of the opening track are pure bliss. bishtmomph
The gorgeous new dreampop LP from Persica 3 is split into two halves, the first swirling and shoegazey, the latter quieter and moodier. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 7, 2022
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