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ARTIST
MV & EE
TITLE
Alpine Frequency
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
CATALOG #
FTR 167LP
FTR 167LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
8/21/2015
"
Matt Valentine
and
Erika Elder
have been cutting new synaptic pathways through brainic underbrush since before most people became capable of breathing air. That said, their albums (many of which are CDR-only issues on their own Child of Microtones imprint) often have a specific delirious blueprint, designed to shift only a certain batch of molecules and/or air into forms that translate into music. Such is not the case with
Alpine Frequency
. This lazily explorative 2LP set was sewn into a whole from various tattered swathes of sound, pieced together like the jeans
Neil Young
wore on the cover of
After the Gold Rush
(1970). A Spectrasound production,
AF
includes appearances by a vast array of MVEE enablers of all known periods --
PG Six
,
Mick Flower
,
Rafi Bookstaber
,
Jeremy Earl
,
Doc Dunn
,
Spanish Wolfman
, and many others emerge from time to time, making sure the water is just right. And it is. Like a very good
Dead
set, the music here moves from overt abstraction to melodic focus and back like the tracking shots
Monte Hellman
used in the 1974 film version of
Charles Willeford
's
Cockfighter
(1962). But unlike the
Allman Bros.
(who were extras in the crowd scenes at Hellman's staged cock fights), MV&EE don't do anything to placate the squares. Their trip is as deep, dark, and flowing as a bushel of burning VT weed. Their music sucks you into its vortex (if it allows you in, of course) and then just carries your ass right through to the finish line. All you have to do is get up now and then to change the records. This here outfit (in all its many guises) has put out a lot of great music, but
Alpine Frequency
feels like a real achievement -- a shorthand essay about all that has gone before it. A beautiful capsulization, ready to float onto your ear's tongue, to melt once and for all. Dig it" --
Byron Coley
, 2015. Edition of 500.
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