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Cat#: DI36 Artist: Night Burger Title: What Happens Next? Date of Release: 5/3/2011 Edition Size: 200 (hand numbered w/gold decocolor) Materials: C36 (BASF chrome stock in imprinted clear shell), full-color print on 80# card, pink glitter adhesive label, soft polybox. Availability: Available for $8ppd to North America, $10ppd rest-of-world. Email orders@deception-island.com to confirm. |
Description:
Since he landed in Philly a couple years back, Noah Anthony of Social Junk has participated in a dizzying number of warped units, including Mirror Men, Mindless Attack, the late Form a Log, and of course Night Burger, solo vehicle for his virtuosic command of postdub/postjunk technique in the service of a stunningly bleak, utterly forlorn, and eerily refined agenda. That this project, which has cultivated a well-earned reputation for prolific and mind-erasingly intense live performances remains sparsely represented in terms of studio recordings makes an immaculately structured album-length release such as this one particularly special.
What Happens Next? gets lurching with a slo-mo jackhammer riff that hits like a thousand telephone switchboards getting sucked into a neutron star. Anthony’s vocal persona is hollowed-out and resigned, a terrifying shell of the dosed everyman angle worked in SJ. The A side progresses through dessicated combo organ perc of “Profligate”, wrapped in tick, melt, and whisper, to the keening rust belt-style reedwave, iq-annihilating bass drops, and bucket brigade gurgle of “As Always,” “You Drive” and “My Turn to Hide”. On the reverse, “What Happens Next (Dross)” transforms the numbing bonecrunch impact of the original into a sick thud/clatter beneath a frigid organ riff, while “Settlement” stretches into epic territory, an unintelligible interior monologue dissolving in a stiff bleach solution amid a hail of highway flares, giving way to a muted psychedelia of the hyperclean factory sort, surprisingly not unrelated to a plausible interpretation of, say, early Chain Reaction recs. Phenomenal.
Notes:
A1: What Happens Next
A2: Profligate
A3: As Always
A4: You Drive
A5: My Turn to Hide
B1: What Happens Next (Dross)
B2: Settlement
I did it for the Philly Crew: Kevin E, Party T, Rick W, Alex H, Eamon T, Wendy H, Lance S, Charles C, Jeremy H, Chris M, etc.
“All the kids want to be whipped with a chain.” -J.R.
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