playlist artwork#12 this weekXL

by ACT

Tracks

1 7:07 589 listens
2 3:01 357 listens
3 4:49 215 listens
4 5:00 162 listens
5 3:40 129 listens
6 0:52 113 listens
7 5:52 124 listens
8 3:39 105 listens
9 2:12 90 listens
10 5:15 85 listens
11 1:30 59 listens
12 1:30 64 listens
13 7:57 59 listens
14 8:52 61 listens
15 6:25 62 listens

About this album

  • Updated: 31/03/2009

Powerful complex post-rock from France that offers an intricate blend of live-action drum&bass breakbeats,guitar noise and free jazz,heavy SCORN -like dub beats and swirling RAPOON -style drones as played by a post-industrial/fusion-metal outfit, using bowed strings,a variety of percussion kits,prepared guitar,computer feedback,saxophone,custom-built bass,and sampler. Quite heavy and bombastic at times, but also slipping into some total right-angle grooves and jazzy abstraction,and actually getting nice and dreamy when ACT falls into some processed sax blowing and scraping drones. Kinda reminds us of a thunderous mix of Tortoise and Young Gods and Kong. Eighteen songs in seventy-four minutes, totally rewarding, often beautiful music for fans of challenging post-rock. 

The tracks of this album are published under a Creative Commons licence, check the licence associated to each track.

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jacobus7522

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jacobus7522 • 2011-02-05 08:55:47

This album is amazing! It's got a little bit of everything from improv, jazz, noise, post rock, drone, etc. It's really good stuff to fall asleep to! I'd recommend it to anyone who's looking for something new.
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