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CLEARED (STEVEN HESS & MICHAEL VALLERA) - Breaking Day

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Immune Records IMMUNE 024 Release Year: 2012 Note: the project of STEVEN HESS (LOCRIAN, etc.) & MICHAEL VALLERA from Chicago with their second LP, a very handplayed & original kind of dark tension-drone (drums, samples, guitar, electronics) with post-rock influences, hypnotic & intense... "a premonition of an assault from the unknown"; lim. 500, download code, stunning gatefold-cover, our highest recommendation !! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €20.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Breaking Day is the second full-length album from Cleared, the Chicago-based duo of Steven Hess and Michael Vallera. While their self-titled debut album (IMMUNE 014LP) found the duo exploring themes of stasis and texture, Breaking Day represents a huge development in the scope and overall style of the project. Where previous material had been slowly assembled from dozens of individual recordings and experiments, this new collection of songs was born from the raw documentation of Cleared's live performance in the studio. Elements of noise, drone, and psychedelia are filtered through a dark, unifying lens that ranges from relentless rhythmic assault to monolithic tonal sculpture. Dueling rhythms of drums and sampled percussion, walls of undulating soundscapes, and hypnotic guitar are deployed with heightened intensity and force. If Cleared's first record presented a frozen, gray-washed realm of ambient sound, Breaking Day represents its inverse: A blackened subterranean space of alien movement and activity; a premonition of an assault from the unknown." Housed in a gatefold sleeve, with download coupon. [label info] www.immunerecordings.net