duggup

Artist: Blonde Redhead
Website: Blonde Redhead or http://www.myspace.com/blonderedhead
Track Name: 23
Playback: flash
Download?: No

I have been listening to this for a week or two know and it has really grown on me. 23 will take a few listens to figure out what’s going on… or it will if you’re as thick as me.

Blonde Redhead plays with time and pitch like children play with toys, they put bits here and there and a few bars later they are moved around to suit some ulterior motive and then they find their way back to where they were in the first place… almost.

I love this. The other tracks are equally as interesting “Silently” is a gem.

Some stuff from their current label….

The band’s unique sound - combining spare otherworldliness and bittersweet tension - can be traced back to their earliest releases in the mid-’90s (issued by Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley’s Smells Like Records label). At the outset of their career, these characteristics were perhaps outweighed by a stridency and an impulsive abrasiveness inspired by the no-wave explorations of Downtown NYC and the refusenik spirit of Washington DC’s Dischord roster. But Blonde Redhead’s command of oblique melody and interest in textural experimentation started to flower more confidently when the band signed to Touch And Go. A broader range of influences started to have their effect on the music, and the trio’s artistic progress was triumphantly confirmed by the appearance, in 2000, of Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons.

Here is a clip for 23 from YouTube…

Don’t miss this, the band is great and give it a few listens, it’s well worth taking the time.