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Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Alpha Piscium.nfo
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Album: Alpha Piscium
Artist: Motion Sickness Of Time Travel
Year: 2014
Genre: New Age / Electronic / Drone / Ambient
DESCRIPTION
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In the five years since Rachel Evans of Motion Sickness of Time Travel began collecting subdued drone music on Bandcamp, she's managed to put out 50 releases. Though that number is padded by several shorter EPs and a handful of splits, when paired with her output as Quiet Evenings (a duo with her husband Grant Evans), her rate of production outclasses many of her peers. And this in a field where prolificacy is almost a given. Given her pace of creation, her compositions are almost by definition ephemeral. But occasionally, as on her new cassette release Alpha Piscium, she takes a break from her airy synth washes to create a fully realized record greater than the sum of its slowly moving parts.
Conceived as a follow-up to her elegiac 2012 self-titled double LP, this new tape carefully pushes Evans' abstract Berlin School inclinations toward something more sculpted and structured. Much of Alpha Piscium finds Evans working in short form; she still relies mostly on an array of synthesizers and her own voice, but here she's bearing down to give tracks like the album's throbbing opener "The Blossoms" urgency and forward momentum. More happens in less time. Placid clicks and flickers at beginning of "Ikebana II" give way to circling, birdlike synthesizer melodies before falling back apart into its constituent electronic elements, all in the span of four minutes.
Evans has spent the better part of the last year exploring her more intense and tortured side on a series of CD-Rs dedicated to each month's full moon, and those dark and distended releases come to mind here in the gloomy hiss of the album's longest track "You Don't Know What It's Like". Her voice, which has been used in the as a means of giving her reverberant hymns a sense of uplift, functions here to issue brief discordant moans, unsettling little vocalizations that echo the dreariness of the 11-minute dirge.
The more significant releases in Evans' catalog function as a sort of summation, compiling all the tricks and techniques she's learned since the last one. Given the number of Motion Sickness of Time Travel releases since her self-titled LP, her sound has acquired a number of new wrinkles. But Alpha Piscium mostly picks up on the general path she's followed of her entire career. She's aiming for a little more momentum and a little more unease, teasing the idea of more straightforward structures. At a fraction of the length of Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Alpha Piscium might be just a hair less ambitious, but it's world of gauzy (and this time around, unnerving) synthesizer drones still invites exploration. - Colin Joyce ; July 1, 2014
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19525-motion-sickness-of-time-travel-alpha-piscium/
FILE INFORMATION
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Number of Tracks: 7
Total Duration: 42:14
Total Size: 96.8 MBs (including scans, m3u, and nfo)
Parity Archive: Yes, 7%
Ripped By: NMR
Files Created on: NMR
Ripped With: NMR
Encoded At: 320 CBR / 44.1 KHz
ID3 Tags: Yes
NFO Created: 23 July 2014
Tracks
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01) The Blossoms
02) Pleochroism
03) Ikebana I
04) Ikebana II
05) No Warning
06) You Don't Know What It's Like
07) Alpha Piscium
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