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BELONG - Same Places (Slow Version)

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Table of the Elements TOE-LP-96 / Cu96 (Curium) Release Year: 2008 Note: release in the new TOTE guitar vinyl-series (12 LPs!), a one-sided LP with etching by SAVAGE PENCIL on the other side. Clear vinyl, mastered by JAMES PLOTKIN Price (incl. 19% VAT): €16.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Auch die Experimental Gitarren-Droner von BELONG sind in der neuen "Table of the Elements"-Vinylserie vertreten! Man muss sofort an eine rein instrumentale und weniger Song-basierende Version von MY BLOODY VALENTINE denken wenn man sie hier hört, aber der Rausch- und Dissoziationsfaktor ist noch grösser, die Klänge verschwinden teilweise regelrecht hinter einer Nebelwand, lösen sich in verbilbte Fragmente auf wie ein altes Foto. Die Atmosphäre die entsteht ist unvergleichlich! Klares Vinyl, Etching, JIM PLOTKIN hat gemastert. "With Same Places (Slow Version), Belong evinces a slow-motion transformation -- plate tectonics, wired for sound. Aural mountains melt into seas; yet icy barrens yield to breathing jungles of detail. The single, sprawling track may evoke decay, dissolution and destruction, but underfoot are tendrils of inexplicable joy. Belong sings a lullaby of obliteration, and the paradox it embodies would make both Kevin Shields and Tony Conrad proud: crushing melancholia and shuddering euphoria, inexorably intertwined." Etching artwork by Savage Pencil, London 2008." [label info] "... A warm, washed out, dreamy, delicate, gauzy blurred woozy drift of pixilated sound. Jeck, Tim Hecker, Fennesz, all those guys have nothing on Belong. If anything, Belong take those sorts of sound and transform them into something more organic, more amorphous. "Same Places" sounds almost like actual people playing actual guitars, instead of something assembled on a computer. Layered and dense, the melodies obscured by thick swells of fuzzy whir, the fact that this is the "slow version" does explain how gorgeously glacial it sounds, and how many of the tones do sound like someone with their finger on the vinyl slowing the record player down to a crawl, but all that does is let the lowend sprawl, the melodies become even more abstract, pulled apart, and slowed down to the point where their constituent parts almost separate and drift away, almost. Instead, it’s an underwater whirl, everything shimmery and indistinct, the sound as you sink deeper and deeper into the abyss, but instead of getting darker, the sounds begin to glow from within, bathing you in their unearthly light. So totally gorgeous. Pressed on thick clear vinyl. One sided, the other side with a super bad ass etching by Savage Pencil, housed in a thick vinyl sleeve, and of course, as always LIMITED!" [Aquarius Records review] www.tableoftheelements.com