The Fun Years emerges with a 50 minute listening experience that's left us gasping for breath. There's a dense crackle and frayed balance to these recordings that makes you feel like the whole thing could disintegrate at any moment, pulling you in to a sound-world formed by broken instruments, the crackle of battered, old vinyl, the edgy ambience of the great outdoors in the middle of the nigh
t and, quite suddenly, an amplified wall of sound playing tricks on your senses. Each of these tracks begins with the fizz and snap of looped and popped vinyl and ends with a devastated, tumultuous re-arrangement of sounds, but it's the process from A to B that's almost impossible to fathom in one sitting. These kinds of aural tricks that make use of manipulated found sounds, turntablism and affected acoustic instruments are hardly new, but 'The Fun Years' mark themselves out with a brilliant disregard for generic templates and accepted convention, imperceptibly realigning sonic boundaries in the process. Their mastery of sound comes a unyielding presence of the intrigue of the unknown.
t and, quite suddenly, an amplified wall of sound playing tricks on your senses. Each of these tracks begins with the fizz and snap of looped and popped vinyl and ends with a devastated, tumultuous re-arrangement of sounds, but it's the process from A to B that's almost impossible to fathom in one sitting. These kinds of aural tricks that make use of manipulated found sounds, turntablism and affected acoustic instruments are hardly new, but 'The Fun Years' mark themselves out with a brilliant disregard for generic templates and accepted convention, imperceptibly realigning sonic boundaries in the process. Their mastery of sound comes a unyielding presence of the intrigue of the unknown.The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside
Label: Barge
Catalog#: BRG005
Country: US
Released: Jul 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental, Ambient
Tracklisting:
1 My Lowville (10:54)
2 Auto Show Day Of The Dead (7:11)
3 Fucking Milwaukee's Been Hesher Forever (10:31)
4 Re: We're Again Buried Under (7:03)
5 The Surge Is Working (8:14)
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