I've listened to a bunch of Dedekind Cut now an always come away with the same feeling - nice enough, but that's all. I don't exactly get too hyped up on ambient anything (or rather it takes a lot to) and I feel like his music is close enough to get there, and could get there, but so far just hasn't crossed the threshold for me. "Tahoe" starts off very ambient, picks up steam with its most interesting tracks in the middle, especially "MMIX", but overall doesn't do a ton for me. Had a lot of hopes pinned on the 12-minute "Hollow Earth" and it has some nice, rich, ambient and field recording/sfx moves, but eh. Maybe the next one is the one.
I keep up with Sunburned only intermittently these days, they seem to be taking a more rock-ist approach lately. Like this one. Each track is about 4-5 minutes of pretty ramshackle, jammy, funky, boogie rock...almost spoiled by the throaty, beery vocals shouted over the top of each one of these tunes with nonsensical platitudes. I almost shut it off after a couple tracks but I stuck it out and kinda came around on some level. I was oddly reminded of My War era Black Flag sludge punk. The band sez "these Holy Grail fueled recordings are a mix of iphone and zoom recordings run through garageband, reaper and some plug-ins. We're still working on the much more listener-friendly Black Dirt session..." and point taken, listener friendly this ain't.
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