Double Leopards Urban Concussion lp great
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Double Leopards' "Urban Concussion" LP isn't about listening as ‘activity,’ it is about listening as ‘passivity’: you have to passively receive the ‘music’ for it to ‘make sense.’ And nobody knows this better than Brooklyn’s Double Leopards. Double Leopards’ latest offering, Urban Concussion, possesses some beautiful noise as active passivity. Two pieces combine for just over thirty minutes of music that drifts out of grooves and into ears as benignly as a mate’s whisper. Yet, there’s something menacing about this music. Perhaps it’s too easy to read the title as a blatant reference to the 9/11 attacks, but seeing as Double Leopards do hail from one of the city’s boroughs, the connection is not easily avoided. Side A (both tracks are untitled) starts out with sputters and belches and general electronic fuzz, like a spacecraft trying to turn over, but ultimately stalled in space’s void. The chatter picks up considerably by the seven-minute mark, and we’re in a sound realm not unlike a slightly hushed version of La Monte Young’s shrieking ‘Poem for Tables and Chairs’ piece. Side B is slower going; its opening populated by an insistent popping phrase, like a futuristic telephone chime, urban emergency warning, or a tongue yet to be discovered. The menace, of course, creeps in again, along with a human voice seeming to engage in chant, but one gets the feeling that by the piece’s close, the mantra goes unanswered, ignored in a swathe of sirens, nearly pagan horns, and an unnerving rumbling static that reluctantly closes out the LP. If this music is supposed to ‘communicate’ anything, it’s that FEMA has been notified, and your corneas are going to be pummeled with the incessant replay of whatever happened on the myriad cable news channels. In just over thirty minutes, Double Leopards compose aggressive music simultaneously remote and touching, an unsettling amalgam that would’ve been appealing to the sensibilities of Kubrick and Cardew, two artists wholly aware of the powers of juxtaposition. Buyer pays $5 for 1st class shipping. PayPal only. Record is virtually pristine. Played oncce or twice to record. Email with questions.
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