STARS OF THE LID - And Their Refinement Of The Decline reviews
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| TinyMixTapes |
 Though And Their Refinement of the Decline is a work of art, it isn’t a "what’s it all about" kind of experience. In a way that few commercial works manage, this double album by Stars Of The Lid swims tetherlessly in the ephemeral logic coming and going. There is no point that it arrives at and no hidden themes to explore. It is the kind of art that those of us who find awe in the most mundane of situations can appreciate. Like waiting in a bus station in a sleepy state of mind and suddenly sharpening up upon noticing that dozing old timer in front of you teetering to his side just slow enough to keep apace with the changing light of dusk....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| Repetition. It lies at the heart of many musical forms. Lends dance music its easy-to-follow groove. Facilitates the crucial pop song “hook”. Gives salience to key compositional elements that might otherwise go unnoticed or under appreciated. Used well, repetition can provide dramatic tension leading up to a sudden shift. Used poorly, it can be a crutch of lazy songwriting. It can underscore a subtle cadence. It can draw attention to hidden subtleties. It can allow intricate variation space to play. Or repetition can tire us. ...full text |
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| PitchFork |
| The vanishing-point music created by drone elders Phil Niblock and, especially, LaMonte Young is what happens when a fixation on held tones reaches a tipping point. Timbre is reduced to either a single clear instrument or a sine wave, silence disappears completely, and the base-level interaction between small clusters of "pure" tone becomes the music's content. This kind of work takes what typically helps us to distinguish "music" from "sound," discards nearly all of it, and then starts over again from scratch....full text |
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