Collarbones
Track: Kill Off The Vowels
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Trans-state collaborative duo Collarbones – Sydney’s Marcus Whale and Adelaide’s Travis Cook – already showed promise as a cut-up electronica project with last year’s freely available Waiting for the Ghosts EP, and now they’ve cemented that claim. Cut from an album due in late 2010, ‘Kill Off The Vowels’ sees the pair hone their talent for building songs out of snatched, hacked-off segments of other tracks and sounds, further sharpening their unique aesthetic with a new ability to generate tension.
Clipped from some distant sample of a sample, the thick, bass-heavy synth that structures this track is given an almost dubstep feel via some odd slicing – cut halfway between two dissimilar sections – and its constant repetition. One can sense Collarbones’ growing dissatisfaction with easy harmonic progression, as they force the loop to decompose into crystalline shards. The only thing giving ‘Kill Off The Vowels’ a kind of musical narrative is Whale’s characteristically layered, treated voice. It’s an intriguing creature, moving from jazzy stuttered verses to increasingly layered harmonies for the chorus.
Collarbones sure have a knack for making beautiful little monuments out of the otherwise transient noises that crisscross the ether.
by Lawson Fletcher
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Full e-single (with excellent remixes and second track, 'Late Nights') is available here:
http://collarbones.bandcamp.com/track/kill-off-the-vowels
Cool shit. Thanks for the download link Lawson.
good work whale!
whale FTW
sound delicious sounds and luscious vocals. great work!
looking forward to hearing this, Waiting For The Ghosts was brilliant.
looking forward to hearing this, Waiting For The Ghosts was brilliant.
thanks everyone.. i've been in adelaide with the other collarbone.
this is really great. as is the more recent beaman park single: http://collarbones.bandcamp.com/
luuuurrrvvve the bass.
show tonight sydney:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115500961825877
http://www.last.fm/event/1515119+Collarbones+at+Hardware+Gallery+on+18+June+2010
show saturday melbourne:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122986781070989
JENNY FROM THE BLOCK!
this was awesome. all sets should end with a band member / audience dance off.
highly recommended as a way to spend saturday night melbourne folk.
ooooo!
That was great, kidz! Who were you, jimm?
looking forward to tonight!
Was an amazing gig
So ashamed to have missed it, dudes!
fun times everyone - though melbourne wins in the 'getting down' stakes.
Sure Was.
Just a nondescript guy in the audience. Was dancing a bunch but not enough to beat the melbourne dance squad it seems. We'll out-dance you next time!