Long Distance Poison – Signals To A Habitable Zone LP (Fin)
I know it’s in poor taste to speculate about it in such a prolonged global economic contraction, but perhaps your city has a planetarium it’s looking to unload to a motivated buyer? Turn that shit into a concert venue – beyond some “Laser Floyd” sort of proposition, but prepared visuals by up and coming artists set to the pulsing drone of today’s modern synthesizer revivalists. Long Distance Poison would be a cinch to play there sometime, at top, bowel-shaking volume. The Brooklyn trio invents subtly shifting patterns in and out of a sinuous drone. The record’s one-sheet focuses on the group’s celestial focus, and discusses the methods by which they accomplish their drone frequencies, and what they all mean, and so while this is a very decent example of the genre, it’s like most drone/space records in that the common points between them and other practitioners aren’t exactly elaborated upon, so you’re left wondering if it’s really something that clicks with you. Still, eat a tab, go down to the Planetarium Rock Venue, watch a presentation, and get lifted. This is music that fetishizes space travel, and provides a keen backdrop for you to float away on. Clear vinyl, with big foldout blueprint poster insert, and numbered in “invisible ink” (yah rite). Also includes a DVD with band-approved visuals, though this copy did not. (http://www.finrecords.com)
(Doug Mosurock)
