Ahead Of Two Thoughts (豆瓣)

表演者: EXEK
流派: 摇滚
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: 黑胶
发行时间: 2018-01-26
出版者: W.25TH
唱片数: 1
条形码: 0855985006796

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8.0

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　　If you’re the kind of person who would read a review of the second EXEK record on Paste Magazine dot com, then you’re probably also the kind of person who already knows that Melbourne, Australia is absolutely teeming with great bands right now.
　　If you’re neither, know this: These days, it feels like every cool band that comes along comes from Melbourne.
　　Many of th... (展开全部) 　　If you’re the kind of person who would read a review of the second EXEK record on Paste Magazine dot com, then you’re probably also the kind of person who already knows that Melbourne, Australia is absolutely teeming with great bands right now.
　　If you’re neither, know this: These days, it feels like every cool band that comes along comes from Melbourne.
　　Many of these bands use electric guitars and bass and drums to create bright, upbeat pop-rock music, packed with catchy melodies and driving rhythms (even if their lyrics aren’t necessarily cheery).
　　A smaller number of Melbourne bands are using guitars and bass and drums to do something entirely different. EXEK belongs to this second group.
　　EXEK is a post-punk band in the truest sense of the term, lurching through the shadows and knocking shit over and sneering at innocent passers-by. Where many of their Melbourne mates draw obvious inspiration from the charming jangle-pop that came out of nearby New Zealand in the 1980s, EXEK bypasses that scene and draws a straight line back to fellow Melbourners The Birthday Party.
　　EXEK started as a studio project for frontman Albert Wolski and then evolved into a quintet, including synthesizer and saxophone. The band’s debut, Biased Advice, came out in 2016, collecting the band’s past recorded material and presenting it in one spot.
　　The follow-up, Ahead of Two Thoughts, expands on the embryonic feel of the debut. Opening track “U Mop” is a slithering jumble of parts: rubbery bass line, prickly guitars, a six-note sax riff, and Wolski’s dead-eyed rantings. “I’m sick of every bit of your shit,” he sings within the album’s first 16 seconds. Aaand…we’re off!
　　Well, not quite. One of EXEK’s specialties is the slow burn, and some songs on Ahead of Two Thoughts take their time finding their particular path. “Punishment,” for example, clanks and clambers for 90 seconds before locking into a killer motorik groove that energizes all involved. And the tension that drives “Weight Loss (Henry’s Dream)” exists primarily in the interplay between its crescendoing guitar squalls and its unhurried, dubby rhythm section. EXEK has the good sense to never cut that tension, and instead leave the listener wanting more.
　　Elsewhere, “Fluent in English” is the album’s guitar-heaviest track—the only place on Ahead of Two Thoughts where the buzz of six strings takes centerstage from the burble of four. “To Medicine” engages in some skittering Swell Maps-style noisemaking. And the penultimate track, “Elevator Etiquette,” somehow amalgamates searing guitars, eccentric drums, gleaming synths and unsettling echo into a seven-and-a-half-minute mishmash of mutant dance music. It is ambitious and strange and irresistible. You can say the same for EXEK.