Super Bells
Lemon Slice is three tracks of processed and treated guitar, droned out to
oblivion like vapor on a morning lake. The three tracks, “Variations on Delay
1,” “2,” and “3,” build upon each other while remaining in their settled mood,
translating the manipulations of Butter City Poster Boys (one person, Graeme
Scott) into perpetual waveforms. Drenched in effects, these “Variations” enter
your mind and ripple through it, triggering the pleasure centers. Ideal for
that quick morning meditation.
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BUTTER CITY POSTER BOYS
“Super Bells Lemon Slice” C12
(Vanity Records)
“Super Bells Lemon Slice" sounds like a shoegaze cover of the Cliff’s Notes to Alvin Lucier’s “I am Sitting in a Room” recording, and only really quoting from the last five minutes or so. BCPB knows how to play the room, literally, transforming their delayed tremolo picking and ensuing wisp of feedback into a midnight chorus of chirping cricket/morse code overtones mutating lazily with every passing breath. This is noisy minimalism at its most visceral, yet somehow all the while maintaining a most consonant slew of tones.
A real noggin’ scratcher for those willing to pay all their attention on a 12 minute slab of pop-drone. And Well worth it.
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—Jacob An Kittenplan
BUTTER CITY POSTER BOYS
"Salt Night" C14
(Vanity Records)

It’s only 2 tracks, spanning a quarter of an hour, but that time in meditation goes flying by. Track 1, “Three Chords” is exactly that, all at once, for pretty much 8 minutes. Sound boring? Well, the devil is in the details, and the devil’s organ reeds get all types of feisty. Think Charlemagne Palestine’s legendary overtone-worship of “Schlingen-Blangen”. Turn it up and walk around the room.
The second track, “Four Notes”, is, you guessed it, just that, and so much more, but this time around with pedal-rich guitar plodding. The mantra leads you down the road contemplating, “Yes, four separate notes, but none isolated, none existing without the support and distraction of the others.”
Sure, this all sounds like a bunch of new age horse-shit if you’re not into it, but I suggest you find some decent speakers and/or headphones and give it some deep consideration. In a world of predictable formulas, Emma Hendrix is sharing with us strength in patience and nuance. Thank you!
https://buttercityposterboys.bandcamp.com/releases
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http://www.emmahendrix.com/
-- Jacob An Kittenplan
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