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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January 3, 2012

Secret Secrets – Chromagica LP (Ehse)

Seems I touched a nerve with coverage of that Angels in America album on this label. Muffy and Buffy and their friends were none too pleased! Secret Secrets, a duo of women on drums and guitar, bass and synths, mix up tribal percussion patterns against drone elements, chanting and moaning. On the slower tracks, the disadvantages of that approach start to take hold – it’s just a lot of space for one instrument to fill while everything else seeps into the cracks. The tracks where such logic is abandoned for building a groove (the seamy “Down in the Valley,” confrontational closer “Threshold Consciousness”) fare much better, and from the mechanics at work here, it seems as if this band came to the sometimes heavy, engaging music on their own without going through the heavy rock it can be deconstructed into. (http://www.ehserecords.com)
(Doug Mosurock)

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