Artist: The Lavender Flu
Title: Heavy Air
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Meds
Genre: Alternative, Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Quality: vbr V0 kbps
Total Time: 1:15:52
Total Size: 155 Mb
Tracklist:
1 x Vinyl
01. Atrial Flutter (1:07)
02. Know Fear (2:14)
03. I Was The Sun (1:46)
04. My Time (4:09)
05. Coke Sunday (2:01)
06. Like A Summer Thursday (2:14)
07. Those That Bend (3:05)
08. Vacuum Creature (2:44)
09. Fingers Like Wounds (2:59)
10. False Promises From Future Selves (1:35)
11. Demons In The Dusk (2:24)
12. Owl In Daylight (2:40)
13. Sligo River Blues (1:24)
14. Telepathic Axe (2:57)
15. The Lawn (4:24)
2 x Vinyl
1. Beer Garden (1:25)
2. Là-Bas (2:09)
3. He Hides From The Mirrors (2:25)
4. Sleep Without Alcohol (1:20)
5. Between The Trees (3:40)
6. Transcendental Hangover (6:23)
7. Keyboard Christ (2:01)
8. Wrong Womb Pt.1 (1:36)
9. The Living Garment (1:47)
10. Assad Eyes (1:33)
11. A Drift In Rooms (1:58)
12. Feel The Ground (2:38)
13. Lay In The Sun (5:40)
14. Nothing Was Breathing (1:32)
15. So Clear (2:02)
Heavy Air is a 30 song puzzle / map masterminded by Chris Gunn (The Hunches, Hospitals). Recorded on analog tape machines over a period of years and outside of the genre concentration camps. A home recording project approached completely open to experimentation but in love with songs. Like Terrence Malick's Tree Of Life remade by the ghost of Phillip K. Dick; projecting sounds as images inside your head. It's extremely psychedelic and dense with layers and layers yielding new secrets with each listen. Songs / melodies / lyrics appear and reappear as half remembered dreams or reconstructed memories. It's a circuitous path through pop songs ("My Time", "Those That Bend" - with a Waterloo Sunset vibe), blasted rockers ("Fingers Like Wounds"), beautiful instrumentals ("Feel The Ground", "Telepathic Axe"), fractured folk ("Between The Trees"), weirder experimental songs ("Vacuum Creature", "La-Bas"), straight up fried epics ("Transcendental Hangover") plus a few covers in the mix including a maximal / minimal take on The Godz mantra-like ode to sun worship and a Townes Van Zandt tune that is derailed by a massive panic attack. Traces of Big Star, Royal Trux, Brian Eno, Meat Puppets II, American Beauty are in the DNA but The Lavender Flu is its own beast.
