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Desert Foxx: Kill Together
ByMuch of the EP is based around ringing guitar that's a bit too busy for drone and distorted enough to be uncomfortable if it's too loud. Balanced against that are a couple quiet sparse passages with soft background piano and vague synth sounds to suggest a desolate empty landscape. There's almost a narrative flow to the overall sequence, which starts out loudest at the front end, then settles into lower and slower rumblings as they flow along.
The middle track finds an odd complement between some almost-peaceful piano notes and the unsettled echoes of the guitar, then quickly buries any lighter feel under some crashing dramatic drums. It's the uneasy part that wins out in the end, as the finale's cloud of decaying echoes fades into a lingering haze of smoke. Desert Foxx does indeed transport you to a desert of their own making, and it's one that feels like a post-apocalyptic wastelandusually harsh and always intense.
Track Listing
For Giants; Bring Us Home; Where We Burn the Bodies.
Personnel
Louis Cohen: guitar, synth; Mike DeiCont: bass, compositions; Alex Kirkpatrick: drums, piano.
Album information
Title: Kill Together | Year Released: 2017 | Record Label: Flea Boy Records
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