Word: ambient
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...first surprise of a night that held many, most of the impressive apparatus on stage turned out to belong to openers Keith Fullerton Whitman and Greg Davis, who hunched over looping decks to produce artfully droning, clicking, shearing, squealing ambient suites. As the genial, bearded gents accreted countless sound fragments—seemingly random shards that synched perfectly with the epileptic video collages projected above them—they accomplished the estimable feat of getting the audience genuinely excited for the comparatively familiar pop craft of the Books...
Somewhere between the encore and the final chord the crowd held their breath. The numbing and endlessly emotionalmusic slowed down as the ambient noise surged forward. From the back of the hall somebody shouted, “France sucks.” The crowd booed. Gonzalez looked...
...Williamsburg,” for example, is full of lyrics like, “Tell me all the bands that sound like other bands / that we kinda sound like,” or “It’s a Brazilian psychedelic, pop-post-avant-garde garage punk ambient core outfit...
Also, the two relatively chilled-out tracks, “Make Love” and “Emotion,” work fairly well as slow ambient pieces. Not because they’re less repetitive than the others, but because the beats aren’t intrusive enough to get on your nerves...
...songs on the beautifully composed album contain ‘quoted’ material of some sort—excerpts from television programs and radio plays, overheard conversation, and ambient noises are recombined and re-contextualized to take on new meaning, supplemented with vocals and an arsenal of instruments, home-made and otherwise...