STILL SINGLE

A space for thoughts on music and culture, as written by Doug Mosurock and a select handful of individuals. This is intended as a supplement to our regular feature Still Single, published on Dusted Magazine. Updates will run here more frequently, and may feature writing on music not covered in the column. Compact discs are still not accepted for review -- we have more than enough vinyl and the occasional cassette to worry about.

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May 28, 2009

Pictureplane “New World” b/w “Trance Doll” 7” (Lovepump United)

Pictureplane 7"

It wasn’t THAT long ago that Out Hud was coasting on a handful of lofty or gorgeous songs and touring with Hella, so why does “Indie Dance” seem like another planet? Because yet again the story arc has us deeply embedded in a rockist world, the front line ready to hand out preapproved credit lines. Former garage-punks reinvent as poorly-recorded O.M.D. Jam-band hippies, peddling one-ninth the inspiration found in a water-damaged box of Shrimper cassettes, somehow manage to get exalted labels to come out of hiatus and release music they wouldn’t have touched with a 50-foot pole in the mid-to-late-‘90s. So yes, it’s a confusing day for the shiny beats and sampled femme-vox of Pictureplane’s “New World,” a track so similar to authentic techno that it undeniably reminds some listeners of trolling certain bars for stepped-on cocaine, their favorite Spits t-shirt bringing much laughter from the well-dressed regulars. Only by getting messy does clarity emerge with “Trance Doll (Post-World Dub)” on the flip, a nice meeting point for inconsistent drum ‘n’ bass, beautiful keyboard swells and repeated vocal coos (male and female, sampled and sung), and nicely-contained electronic disturbances that make sense of the Lovepump United imprint (Aids Wolf, HEALTH, Genghis Tron). (www.lpurecords.com)

(Andrew Earles)

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