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01. MIKE SHIFLET - (Sufferers)
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02. MIKE SHIFLET - Sufferers
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03. MIKE SHIFLET - Axle Grease
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04. MIKE SHIFLET - Blessed And Oppressed
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05. MIKE SHIFLET - No Sanctuary
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ARTIST
SHIFLET, MIKE
TITLE
Sufferers
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
TYPE
CATALOG #
TYPE 097LP
TYPE 097LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
11/8/2011
Ohio-based noise upsetter
Mike Shiflet
has amassed an enviable amount of releases in the last decade. Tapes, vinyl, CD-Rs -- you name it, he's done it, but it's taken until now for Shiflet to weld together what he regards as his defining work. The first in a series of two "proper" albums,
Sufferers
takes the listener to the very heart of Shiflet's sound -- through the abrasive noise heard on his early releases all the way to the shimmering ambience that made up his breakthrough album
Llanos
. A deeply patient and rewarding record, Shiflet uses his long-practiced skills to lay waste to a gaseous collection of source recordings, bringing a chattering, disturbing resonance to what sounds like whirring hospital equipment. It is always difficult to reframe U.S. noise music without the punk, tape-destroyed aesthetic -- but like
Kevin Drumm
before him, Shiflet manages to push his sound into high fidelity effortlessly. Each frequency is picked meticulously for maximum effect, and if you listen on headphones, you are treated to an entirely different experience. Whether reducing the listener to an opium-fuelled coma on the shimmering "Axle Grease," or treating us to the kind of intensity
Fennesz
last exhibited on
Endless Summer
with "Blessed And Oppressed," there is a sense that Shiflet has an ineffable control over his plethora of techniques and ideas. A rare gem in a mire of half-hearted records,
Sufferers
grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until the final creak. And this is only the beginning. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Limited vinyl pressing of 500 copies only.
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