Balam Acab – Oh, Why
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Alec Koone weaves the new old. Forget Smithsonian Folkways, the days of recordings made by Alan Lomax and Harry Smith—we’ll never have time to listen, and next generation’s music consumers will struggle to remember the 1980s. A century from now, after peak oil and the depths of economic collapse, a huddle of old men under a lean-to near Pulaski will be chiming half-remembered verse from Rihanna and Cee-Lo.
The new old is our future in retrograde, a weathered sound stirred from artificial crackle, faux faded vocals, and that old standby: bass. Balam Acab has brought us a morsel from his forthcoming full-length, and it’s a more concise brew of samples than on his first EP (one of last year’s best). He sets the filter to lomograph as a fey birdsong gives way to low-end warble.
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