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...nine-minute opener, “SZ2,” exemplifies this musical heterogeneity—after beginning with a background of quietly moody lo-fi strings, a heavily compressed guitar enters and begins to accumulate a steady rhythm that becomes set off by the inclusion of a tambourine and emerging discordant notes. The mood is abruptly shattered by an amazing intrusion of loud beating drums and heavily distorted guitar at 5:10. The groove that is created is shattered twice more in the song, as it switches gears to an extremely rapid drum beat accompanied by rock guitar...
This long composition is followed by the album’s shortest tracks, which again show this rapid shifting of genres: “TRAS3,” containing heavily echoed psych guitars that with a little more echo could potentially be the moody background to a Tool song, puts the listener into a reverie which is startlingly succeeded by the immediate kick of loud and upbeat drums starting “IPT2,” which makes use of numerous heavily-effected guitar and synths, and ends after 1:49, right when it leads the listener to believe...
...unsurprisingly the most movement-inducing song on the album, though designed for a particularly spastic dancer—rapid, complex drums combine with the unabashedly digital cut-up of sound clips alongside the air intakes of a beatboxer and poppy organ melodies contrasting with atonal and arrhythmic guitar riffs. The song features possibly the first awesome beatboxing-breakdown in the history of music, and continually eludes predictability with vicissitudes of style and form, quiet regular parts followed by loud irregular parts, and a who-would-have-guessed it fade-out at the end. Considered altogether, the five songs...
Haynes, often considered one of the leading guitar virtuosos of the 21st century, is in fine form on this album. He’s so much better than almost all of the guitarists on the rock and jam circuits these days due largely to his innate feel and strong fingers; his playing really makes some of these songs sing, as on “New World Blues.” However, anyone familiar with the latest iteration of the Allman Brothers Band knows that Haynes is capable of much more when paired with young virtuoso Derek Trucks. When...
There are so many creative outlets here that anyone can indulge a passion. I’ve been exposed to diverse artistic styles and unique personalities through my peers, by discussing tastes, swapping albums, and jamming on guitar...