Lid EMBA | Decibelia | Hearsay | | TeleZygote |
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| TERMINAL MUSE: RED | ||||
"Loud rhythm music loaded with nasty synthesizer bits. Quite a furious little fucker and a very fine release. Earcleaning time." |
"As abstract as the tracks get, this isn't random improvisational music – it’s far too tight and the melodic figures too deliberate to be 'happy accidents.' It’s the perfect soundtrack to a downtown drive on a hot summer’s night in a sinister mood – trouble awaits!" Pushed Buttons Burning In |
"Mastered for maximum unease by James Plotkin, the five tracks of dark psychedelic noise on this album are a towering testament to the healing power of efx abuse and truly peculiar ideas about juxtaposing certain sounds and patterns in eccentric methods. Startling and otherworldly." the one true dead angel |
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"The tracks scream and rake away at your eardrums, creating soundscapes like urban wastelands, full of unpleasant pitfalls, yet nicer to have outside your back door than a rubbish dump." |
"If you're tempted, be prepared for this circa-26 minute instrumental extravaganza: themusic is a factory-fuelled splash of concrete sounds, where the abrasive texture of the sounds is as important as any conventionally understandable rhythm or melody." |
"Sean Moore's musical cloak, Lid Emba, does battle with instro pieces that are significantly more spurty, spastic, rude and plastic on his new EP." Stomp and Stammer |
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"I'm curious to hear where this guy takes this already-intriguing blend of glitch, jazz and post/prog-rock." Foxy Digitalis |
"Some of this reminds us very much of American and British electronic bands from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Odd obtuse stuff." Baby Sue |
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| WE SUBSTITUTE RADIANCE | ||||
| "The final track clocks in at a staggering nine and half minutes, and is nothing short of 100% pure, tripped out synthetic bliss." Sea of Tranquility |
"A beautiful piece of avant-garde electronica." ReGen Magazine |
"Like spending 40 minutes inside an especially creepy toy shop." Terrascope | ||
"So mind bendingly complicated that to try and analyze it at any great length is enough to cause a brain hemorrhage for even the most decorated of polymaths." |
"Theater of the mind music that keeps you on your toes, which is very important in these days of 30 second attention spans." |
"A bizzaro world aesthetic that manages to be dark and disturbing yet reassuring. One of the best Atlanta-based albums of 2008." Ohmpark Atlanta Music Blog |
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| "A series of complex and bewildering beats upon which a swirling kaleidoscope of electronica is constructed." Wonderful Wooden Reasons |
"Wicked, textural, and disturbing." MastanMusic |
"An ominously apocalyptic parade of pieces that may serve well as the winning side's celebratory soundtrack once humanity falls and the machines take over once and for all." Stomp and Stammer |
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"Like a hallucinogenic mushroom cloud slowly dissolving in a dark dance club and bathing the dancers in radiation." |
"An art-damaged jam between Tangerine Dream, early 90's Residents, and a dubbed-out electro-King Crimson. Heavy guitars, fractured beats, pulsing bass and massive amounts of knob-twiddling all collide for an amazing psychedelic journey to a better place. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED." |
"Elements of psyche, electro, prog, ambience lace this collaboration. All instrumental, very interesting and progressive quantum leaps into the realms of new music, pop, experimental." KZSU Zookeeper Online |
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| REASON ISN'T RADAR | ||||
| "A twitchy, glitchy, fun and funky exploration of the outer edges of beat driven sounds. Think Autechre with a smile on it's face and a song in it's heart." Wonderful Wooden Reasons |
"The raw sound points to the use of traditional, non-sophisticated equipment for processing and marshalling; yet the glitch noise indicates complicated computer generated music... a unique debut." The Plastic Ashtray |
"There's something new and crazy every other second... a more organic approach taken to a style usually embodied by synthetics..." Ohmpark Atlanta Music Blog |
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"Noisy and dysfunctional psychedelia." |
"On the experimental side, yet structured and relaxed. Loops and sounds that get close to prog rock." KZSU Zookeeper |
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© 2010 Lid Emba |
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