Portland, Oregon's The Planet The sound like Portland:
weird. And that's just the way we want to keep it. Old-school synth beeps and bleeps sound so competitive you
wonder where the arcade is. The skins get trashed so
hard you're sure, whatever they did, they deserved
it. Vocals are effected to sound muffled, distant and
painful. And the spastic riffs and offbeat timing
sound as they should in a post-punk/math
rock/noise music-making setting.
You Absorb My
Vision is The Planet The's first album for Kill Rock Stars'
kid-sister label 5RC and the group's follow-up to their 2003
debut, Physical Angel (54-40 or Fight
Records). The new album opens with the ferociously
passionate "The Look of a Woman," a raw and new-wave-y
track built on heavy backbeats. "Wet Dust: sounds
futuristic and robotic. The
sluggish "Free Jewelry" slugs through waves of synth
while breathy vocals whisper and coo atop slow-moving
rhythms. "Envision My Zorb" builds slowly,
leading into soft, flyaway synth, echo-drenched
hiccups for vocals, and hypnotic arrangements, making
for a sleepy and fitting closer. With You Absorb My
Vision, The Planet The prove odd ideas and an offbeat creativity can result
in an excellent album
that you can dance to. Maybe more importantly,
it keeps Portland weird. |
