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new ways of saying yes

by midwich

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stomaching 08:54
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doubled over 10:23
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gradual, new 14:15

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released January 10, 2014

Released on CDr in 2002 (with the great cover above) by the now sadly defunct Trademarked Industries.

I’ve always been in two minds about this one. The title is unusually upbeat, as is the quick opener, ‘mysterious parcel’, which lumbers comically from foot to foot for 40 seconds. The closer, ‘gradual, new’, is a 14 minute fuzz-drone that radiates blissed-out happiness and contentment. Odd, I know - what was I thinking?

The trouble comes in between. ‘Stomaching’ is a minimal, splintering, battle-of-the-car-alarms that I now find too gruelling to get through. ‘Doubled over’ is a muscular analogue throb that remains satisfyingly pummelling at high volume but is hardly easy listening. I’m guessing these tracks were inspired by a bout of gut-churning illness – alcohol related – that I endured in the squalid, slug-infested hovel where I was then living...

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midwich Leeds, UK

Home of Rob Hayler's current noise/drone project see monsd and back catalogue releases from midwich, now defunct.

Search Bandcamp for stuff by midwich on other labels. Visit the radiofreemidwich blog for other downloads and entertaining writing about experimental music.
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