Amidst the dizzying, disorientating stretches of the ever-expanding digital landscape that rapidly engulfs the world's populace with each passing hour, our inhabitants become more and more draped with dependency on an electronic world. MySpace, iPods, Blackberries, text messaging... Our eyes have become so accustomed to staring at LCD's all day that we have forgotten what it is to walk out the front door and explore the world with our own eyes, feet, and hands. Yet a primordial calling still beckons and bellows from beneath all the wiring and patch cables... the type of voice that makes grown men abandon their laptops, cell phones, and PDA's for emergency vacations to the Alaskan wilderness and other remote locales for weeks at a time. The same voice that is the reason we are obsessed with television programming like ABC's Lost.
Not surprisingly, much of our music paints a reflection of the times. Pop record vocals are now more machine than human thanks to pitchshifting and Autotune. Pre-formatted beats and loops are just as acceptable and embraced as sweaty, imperfect analog tape recordings. Even casual listeners have added "circuit bending" into their musical vernacular these days.
The ambient/avant monikers for Brent Eyestone (FORENSICS) and Chris King (THIS WILL DESTROY YOU), AUGHRA and MOSH PATROL (respectively) can both be described as the glorious head-on collision between our digital "sophistication" and our primordial longings. Massive aural soundscapes and delicate, contemplative melodies permeate this split collaboration, eliciting trance-like introspection upon repeated listening. Packed with mysteries, chills, and other elements that draw a universal nostalgia from within the listener, AUGHRA and MOSH PATROL will sink into your bones and stay put. If you're looking for a disc to paint your mental canvas over the long hard winter, seek no further.
01. Always Oversleeps 02. Dog Years 03. A Bluff Carried More Resolutely Through To The Final Limit 04. Courage & Courtesy 05. Lullaby 06. I Love You, Please Come Back 07. The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same 08. Paper Airplanes 09. I'M Going To Sleep On It 10. Leave The Lights On 11. One Day We Will Grow Old And Forget The Things We Had When We Were Young
