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Gloceknspiel: Dupleix

by Glenn Astarita
August 3, 2012

This UK-based duo presents an anarchistic overture, spanning vintage Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, avant psychedelic, free-metal, and a host of other genre-busting maneuvers on the artists' largely, high-impact second effort. With guerilla tactics, edgy drones and heavily fuzzed-out electric guitar voicings, the duo turns up the heat via knotty time signatures and fractured rhythms. They paint a broad soundscape on the title track. Marked by swarming electronics and linear momentum, the music comprises densely populated sub-themes with variances ...