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FAILING LIGHTS - same

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Intransitive Recordings INT036

Release Year: 2010

Note: solo-project of MIKE CONNELLY; weird low-fi music using hiss- & synth-drones & short snippets of instrumental sounds... quite unique !!

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"An evocative work of bleak electronic atmosphere and suffocating dread, FAILING LIGHTS is the intensely personal vision of Michigan (via Lexington, KY) artist MIKE CONNELLY. While he has toured the world as 1/3 of legendary industrial/noise units HAIR POLICE and WOLF EYES, Connelly spends his days crafting a much different sound on his own. Under the Failing Lights flag, he has self-published a nearly uncountable number of cassettes and CDRs of rough drones, detuned improvised grit, blown-out burl, and unstable acoustics in tiny editions that quickly vanish into collector-land. Intransitive is proud to present the defining-and first widely available-Failing Lights statement, an album of sinewy horror with a fine-tuned beauty within its darkness. A single piece in five sections, Failing Lights begins with disquietingly barren negative space. As the album creeps forward, it steadily dispenses sheets of diffuse throat-scratch and skittering strings, culminating in a blast of molten organ. not noise, ambient, improv, black metal, or anything else: this is pure Failing Lights." [label info]

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"Despite having released "nearly uncountable number of cassettes and CDRs", I don't think I heard of Failing Lights before, although Mike Connelly's work with Hair Police and Wolf Eyes didn't escape my attention. As Failing Lights he moves away from the strict noise policy of his main acts and dabbles in the darkest corner of… well, what exactly? Its too easy to say that this is 'experimental' music, which of course it is. Its a sound collage of various interests: drone sounds, improvisations on a guitar, electronics, organ bits. All of that recorded in a bit of lo-fi mode, which adds a great charm to the proceedings. Great textured music, that has nothing to do with noise, except maybe for the somewhat raw and intense quality of the sounds used. Each of the five pieces have a distinct character of its own, using a variety of instruments and ideas, some more drone like in approach, others being more cut up. It shares that great 'good noise' tag with those releases on Semata Productions reviewed elsewhere. This is a release that is made with some intelligence with respect to composing elements from noise music, but then entirely in a non-noise way. Great! Highly recommended this one if you want to broaden your interests in noise." [FdW/Vital Weekly]