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ARP of the Covenant: ARP of the Covenant

Read "ARP of the Covenant" reviewed by James Taylor


Somewhere between electro-jazz and avant-prog-rock rests Minnesota's ARP of the Covenant. The trio's self-titled debut marries electronic and acoustic sounds, eschewing categorization, at times proving to be a rather exciting glimpse at what this band is capable of. Other times... not so much. The band, as its name would suggest, is wholly obsessed with the ARP synthesizer--a 1970s-era analog synthesizer--and, it seems, any other synthesizer, keyboard or laptop; anything electronic capable of sound manipulation. Led by keyboardist ...


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