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cover: NEU49
  1. At Odds
  2. Following Electro Acoustic Theory
  3. In Conjunction
  4. Disregard for SBS

Impromptu CD NR049

'Impromptu' casts the listener adrift in a sea of dark reverberations and ominous implications of foreboding premonitions, with added overtones of impending doom.

Somewhere in the distance, a door creaks open (or is it shut?) as Stone conjures gurgling electronic ephemera and muffled sheets of cacophony, while Gallagher unfurls mile-wide string bends from the bottom of a cavernous echo chamber. At once imbued with Touch Records-style ambiance and something considerably m o r e

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'Impromptu' slow-boils with acoustic death marches, the hot sparks of yawning alloy and the faint smell of blood, before closing with the unnerving 15-minute soundscape "Disregard For SBS," which was recorded oh-so-appropriately on Super Bowl Sunday.

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