JOE COLLEY - "Deformation of Tone" LPJoe Colley Deformation of Tone LP (Total Black, 2023) "Joe Colleys skeleton key is an intra dimensional sense of humor. It exists in a place between and beyond dry, deadpan, and defeatist, and is not actually funny. He has a knack for unlocking the essence of the absurdly uncomplicated, elevating it to a place of near iconic significance and leaving it there. Hovering in a void. Or mashed in the jowl of an insect getting doused with regurgitated chyme

Melchior delivers these psychedelic visions

Fernando Falcão

they have released three LPs and a clutch of self-released cassette and digital releases

what's really amazing is how consistent the quality of the material is - also

Ryan might not be peerless at what he does best

"At the dawn of the 80's

Gauzy melodic textures in the background provide a calming counterpoint to the uneasy qualities of the composition

but can be heard using electronics as far back as 1989 on an electro acoustic work called Monads and on the Bailey-led Company ’91 recordings

emitting kosmisch melodies and Teutonic ambience that channel-Julian Cope-like-past giants such as Limbus 4

The four tracks bear some relationship to other contemporary Latin club anthems in their chugging rhythms and severe sonics

the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

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