2011年 Dec 5日 Monday, 12:44
Clearance Sale, the new album from Desert Island Dicks and Where Woodwose Walk, sees the two noise groups reflecting on the ongoing global financial crisis that started in the late 2000s.
Across ten tracks (including one collaboration) named after British retail chains that went into administration following the crisis, the two groups use noise, drones, field recordings, sampling and live instrumentation to explore connections between the current malaise and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Train sounds, Cisco Houston, news reports, Woolworths, Zavvi, "Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?", corporate malfeasance and T.S. Eliot all come together for the first time in what critics are already calling "Capitalist Realism in a disused arms factory".
The album is available from Amoebic Industries as pay-what-you-want digital download or CDr priced at £3 plus p&p. The two groups have pledged to make an accompanying follow-up album in the event of a double-dip recession.
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Desert Island Dicks are an anonymous international plunderphonic noise collective. No-one is certain who is in the group nor even how many of them there are. Their 2009 album The Shades of Jazz to Come was named in Marina Rosenfeld and Raz Mesinai's "Top 15 Albums of 2009" list in The Wire.
Where Woodwose Walk is the one-man project of Brighton, UK resident Arran Jones. When not composing, he enjoys allotment gardening, snail collecting and incorrect music.
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Amoebic Industries is a jenky DIY label based out of a Glasgow flat. They have released records by 30KB, Aurist and Desert Island Dicks.
(p&p for physical copies:
UK: +50p
EU: +£1.00
elsewhere: + £1.50)
01. woolworths
02. rosebys
03. usc
04. viyella
05. zavvi
06. mfi group
07. waterford wedgwood (sucking the pennies)
08. land of leather (needs cow bell)
09. olan mills
10. whittard of chelsea