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Leslie Keffer
Feels Like Frenching
Ecstatic Peace E#105b
LP
£7.99
New edition of 500 copies solo album from one-woman noise orchestra Leslie Keffer. The whole record feels caught up in a dense blizzard of barely-legible noise tectonics, with noxious clouds of day-glo psych/noise oblivion that seem to gradually mutate into melancholy atonal nocturnes. Comes with a double-sided laser print-out insert. "When Leslie Keffer lived in Athens, OHIO she was asked about the noise scene there. "You're looking at it", she responded. Indeed. Leslie is one of the more fascinating proponents of homegrown Middle America noise music. A single girl drawn to the more ravaged and magical aspects of noise as source music, art and lifestyle. She has since moved to Nashville where she has been developing and progressing her personal take on what is basically a highly marginal genre of music. Her inputs are radio transmission wave-noise, the living aura of Lindsay Lohan, punk, pop, Madonna, her amazing girlfriends and defiltering the terror of male-centric Power Electronic depravity and goon-ism. Her last two No Fun festival performances, in duo with Thurston Moore in 2006, and the Noise into dance beat into 'Where's The Party' slumber party freak out where all the noise girls fem-exorcised an already somewhat de-clawed noise misogynist is already legendary. Leslie's sound has been heard on various cassette labels (Rampart, Gameboy, I Just Live Here, Epicene, Cherried-out Merch) and most recently her own imprint Action Claw. She has issued a number of hand-made CDRs with her own touch of knitted fabric pouches. She has two tracks on the 2XCD Tarantula Hill Benefit (Ecstatic Peace E#107), one with Baltimore's Nautical Almanac who have been championing Leslie's work for years now. We are only too happy to release this premier full-length LP of Leslie's demonstrating where she's been and where she's going." Ecstatic Peace
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Prissywillow
Letch Luff/Frocks Like Foliage
Tusco Embassy /Action Claw No Cat/No Cat
7
£6.99
Hands-down classic 7” from this new project featuring Leslie Keffer and Valerie Martino (Unicorn Hard-On), easily the best thing Keffer has done to date. Two long tracks of minimal/weird synth and drum machine stylings that would reconcile the post-Industrial brut of the Tolerance recordings with aspects of Silver Apples, UK electro DIY like Storm Bugs and the austere Euro-pop of Asmus Tietchens and Conrad Schnitzler. Great, awkward melodies, crazy polyrhythmic drum assaults, perfect basement USA atmosphere. One of the best 7s of 2008, highly recommended.
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