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Artist: MELCHIOR, DAN Title: Excerpts (& Half-Speeds) Format: LP Label: Kye Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Dan Melchior is known by many as a long-standing footsoldier of garage rock. Throughout his fifteen years of service Dan has gained a reputation as being one of the few in his field willing to test the flexibility of an otherwise stagnant genre. Last years brilliant Assemblage Blues LP (Siltbreeze) showed Dan scratching at the bars of his cage, restricted by the very domain he dominates. Excerpts (& Half-Speeds) is Dan Melchiors hammer in the mirror. A courageous act of self-vandalism, reducing his own sonic signature to a series of fractured sketches, riffs, and run-throughs, glued together to create something akin to Another Green World for the fuck off generation. Excerpts (& Half-Speeds) arrives in a full color high gloss Melchior-designed sleeve, with insert, in an edition of 450 copies." -KYE
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Artist: MELCHIOR, DAN Title: Curator Culture Death Epoch Music Format: LP Label: Little Big Chief Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| 300 pressed. "Dan Melchiors first release of 2013 (I say that with optimism) is bound to confound s much as impress. Haters gwan hate ad infinitum, but even still. The din of annoyance at Dans output by many-a critic is really just the pinched wheezing of prudes, straightenin their periwigs in a last ditch to cover up nervous bald spots. And dont you go joining em; ask me, the good times are just gettin underway. In the hazy afterburn of The Backward Path, wherein we glimpsed Dan at his most lyrically candid, comes C.C.D.E, where words are half-smothered in the molting earth and linearity is just some other jaunt. Best I can tell, its a backyard wedding of Assemblage Blues and Excerpts & Halfspeeds, with Lard Free and Yuzo Iwata on the brides flank. As you might imagine, the voyage into the sunset of these two involves a roaring mutant chassis and plenty of muddy vistas off the backroads of songform. Is that the Texas outland in the distance? Either way, the geography ahead can only get woolier. But with Dans thoroughly Scotch-taped map at the ready, theres no need to clench yer cheeks. The next turns just up the road a piece, I swear." - Little Big Chief. |
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Artist: MELCHIOR, DAN Title: Assemblage Blues Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "As DAN MELCHIOR continues to kick the Medway gutbucket to the curb, he is also willfully absorbing all mannerve underground cankerous crud along the way. For those endeared to wallet chains and crisp, cuffed jeans, this has been tantamount to heresy. But for thems whats embraced the sounds of "the new Dan," said aberrations are as welcome to caustic ears as a cold beer is to a setve parched lips. And while last years Visionary Pangs LP (released with DAS MENACE on the S-S label) was a grower and a half, Assemblage Blues snuffs it as if it were no moren a sneeze in the wind. "This here LP seemingly vibes from such leftfield Blighty heavies as Instant Automatons and L. Voag as well as the dark side of Alex Chilton (think Dusted in Memphis) and the 3:00 A.M. shudder of Prominent Disturbance. Within the canon of the Siltbreeze label, Melchiors magnificent malarkey on Assemblage Blues has secured him a spot somewhere between The Shadow Ring and Jim Shepard. The pone dont sizzle much hotter than there. And the sneezin is nil. Edition of 500, includes download card." - Siltbreeze. |