Temporally Enhanced
THE WET NEST OF ADDERALL CANYONLY
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Spanish artist, Escif was recently in Poland for the Katowice Street Art Festival where he painted this huge mural of an on/off switch in an apartment complex
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Adderall Canyonly & Oxykitten – The Cutting Room 8.2
The Cutting Room has everything I’d ever want from an album. Silly references to drugs: check. An absolute love, verging on obsession with its extremely analogue equipment: check. Finally it simply sounds so good. Adderall Canyonly & Oxykitten sound nearly childlike in their simple melodies. Yet this is complicated music.
On first listen it reminds me of a faithful homage to the fathers of electronic pop, Jean-Jacques Perrey, etc. That’s the first impression. ‘Dog-Fisting My Unicorn’, ‘Cruising for a Losing’ and ‘Painter of Houses’ certainly give off this quality. The aforementioned pieces are short without enough room to truly roam, these serve as interludes for the main pieces.
Longer pieces are where they hit their stride. Some of the longer pieces show affection for the sound. A few of them remind me of Stereolab’s geeky worship of old sounds. ‘Cadaver Lab’ is brilliant. It uses the limitations of its equipment to its advantage. The technology becomes a way of expressing its slight resignation. In other words, it’s a wonderful, if a bit sad, piece. Plone (that short-lived Warp Records entity) makes its influence felt in the song ‘Watch Your Mouth - Put Your Lips On It’. If this isn’t Plone-inspired I’m somewhat amazed. The leisurely feel of it screams a perfectly lazy Sunday morning.
I like the mix of long and short forms on this album. The love of the old sounds is obvious on each track. Underneath the childlike naiveté there’s something adult going on in ‘The Cutting Room’. Consider this the aural equivalent of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. While it appears to be sweet and young, this is old, thoughtful music.
5/29: Portland - BUNK BAR - w/ Parson Red Heads
5/30: Chico - TOWN LOUNGE - w/ Kelly Blair Bauman
5/31: Santa Cruz - THE CREPE PLACE - w/ Sonny & The Sunsets
6/1: Davis - SOPHIA’S THAI - w/ Cotton Jones
6/2: Sonoma - HUICHICA FESTIVAL 2012
6/3: San Francisco - THE MAKE-OUT ROOM - w/ Kelley Stoltz & Sonny Smith
