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Blog : Ssu5 Review In Broken Face

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SSU5 review in Broken Face

One can always discuss the value of compilations but in the case of this micro label based in Kyogle, Australia it goes without saying that they can be crucial in terms of unleashing more goods from well-respected but unknown outsider units as well as presenting new bands.

Sound Surrounds Us V is easily one of the finest compilations I’ve heard this year and it actually manages to focus on bands that are new to me. The icing of the cake through is Broken Face faves Ray Off out of New Zealand, which delivers one of their finest slices of fucked-up folk yet. ”Middlemarch Hop” is homebrewed folk covered by a thick blanket of tasty sound collisions in miniature and droning lo-tech minimalism. It sounds a bit like a more electronically bent and experimental Hush Arbors, and if that’s not praise I am not sure what is. Add to all this stumbling feedback and whirrs of drone buzz from Australian Little Head Big Body, modal guitar-drone bliss flavored with all sorts of aquatic noisescapes from No Guru and soothing walls of beat-infused drones hypnotism from Biffplex and you got yourself a stellar comp.

by Mats in Broken Face

SSU5 is available in the half/theory shop.

Added by joel on 24 October 2006

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