Thursday, February 18, 2010

No war but the Gary War and Ducktails

Of the current fetish for degraded and detourned sonics and images (arranged under the title "Hynagogic Pop") two acts sit on opposite ends of its spectrum: Gary War and Ducktails.

Ducktails self-titled effort runs like a carousel of nostalgic haze and downer sunset pop thats equal parts Bobb Trimble and Kemmialiset Ystavat. The feel is of a dream where 80s pop textures are removed and applied to looped fantasies reassembled by the hear and now. "Landscapes" is more a conventional pop record despite some abstract moments.


Gary War is the transcedent opposite to Ducktails; with sonics extracted from science fiction rather than summers hanging out at the beach. His first record "New Raytheonport" is more in line with the AM radio from 1985 of Ariel Pink or Lamborghini Crystal but veers in parts to the desolate hiss of Suicide.

"Horribles Parade" is cracked and wobbly in comparison. Parts vibrate and echo in all directions, vocals processed to the point that it streams up and down as well as out. Imagine this but cloaked over and in between a band that sort of sound like Modern Lovers or Pere Ubu. Rather than evoke anything real or remembered, HP brings up places and sounds that never happened or could never happen yet still work like a pop record.

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