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Antique Brothers – ‘Hot Shit’ [Review] 

15 May 09 - Cassette, Review

Drying from the baptismal waters cordoned by Jackie-O Motherfucker on their ‘Change’ LP and many U-Sound collections, ‘Hot Shit’ by the Antique Brothers captures two long-form sessions of the boys’ familiar pulp guitar with a tasteful inclusion of non-strings. Both sides recorded live, these tracks are less composed than their chambered kin and catalog-mates Anvil Salute, as the pair of Ged and Cy do no patient waiting for entrances and exits, but manically move from one sound to another, interrogating and exhausting the instrument before pausing to turn on the next. This is not to deny the constancy of the songs - with an addition of three and two players, there is a static presence which fills out the spectrum and implies a crowded stage, with all players in conscientious sync (if not total deferral to the namesakes) – but the funk of “the jam” is evident and central, loosening the vertebrae of the guitars and airing out the collisions between sounds. Shiny loops and synthetic waveforms fill the back drop of the first side with gaseous distortion, a hot-boxing of the sonic space which seems to force every emanation upward – and this is certainly aided by all the bent strings – artificially heated as opposed to all that desert jam suffocation the genre is rotten with. The organ quiver which starts the flip side, the “Shit” side recorded in upstate New York, introduces a darker palette of sounds including percussion, saxophone and electrics painting with pointier gestures. Though standing in Pete Seeger’s backyard, no grand gesture is made, as this sound emerges whole-cloth from a much more recent middle state Post Rock. A spotless recording on pro tapes with thick, three-panel photo covers. Limited to 125. (Really Coastal cassette, $5 HERE)