Slow Down, Trip Out
The disc starts out quickly enough with 'Slower California', the edgy 'Asleep in a Stereo Field' and '(bess)' three songs that will groove your foot-a-tappin' (or is that "tap your foot-a-groovin'"?.. I get them mixed up sometimes). Though the song's are offered up at 1/2 the speed of most of today's guitar music... these guitar's still find time to soar and crunch within this framework. Some tracks seem "hardcore" for this genre. And what genre is that, you ask? I've heard it called "shoegazer" music, or "space rock". I find the tunes far groovier than those descriptions imply. I like to think of it as "organic space groove"–whatever that means. Check these guys out and come up with your own clever description. (Then write about it and hope in catches on. If it does that means you "coined the phrase..." Wouldn't that be cool? to "coin a phrase"?) V1 can make the music go even slower. Like on the 'Burden of More Tomorrows' a track so slow with a Floydian groove so hypnotizing, you shouldn't listen to it while operating heavy machinery. And take their cover of The Beatles' 'Daytripper'. V1 starts it out so slow it may take you awhile to figure out this is a song encoded in your DNA (as all Beatle songs are at this stage in human evolution). The result is a six and a half minute version of a song that was originally around two and a half minutes long. Then they slow things down further (!) by swirling 'Daytripper' into the instrumental track 'Over and Out'. And of course, there are musical comparisons to be made here: I noticed some sounds resembling Superunknown-era Soundgarden, Piper and then Dark Side-era Floyd, and even some of the mellower stuff that Jane's Addiction did. BTW, this is great music to have in the background during a party.
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