Falling Forward - Let These Days Pass: The Complete Anthology 1991-1995 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On their first official collaboration, Japanese noise pioneer Masami Akita aka Merzbow and Australian sound sculptor Lawrence English present a harrowing, surrealist portrait of nocturnal industrial activity, spawned by field recordings made in a sprawling factory complex seven hours north of English's home in Brisbane. He characterizes the area as Inchuneasy and unsettling,Inch awash in the sickly glow of smelters and refinement machinery, somehow not of this world - a liminal quality vividly captured in Andrei Tarkovsky's sprawling purgatorial opus, Stalker, to which the title alludes. Akita, too, described early drafts of Eternal Stalker as feeling Inchlike the soundtrack to a dystopian science fiction opera.Inch A mood of mechanical dread and ruined futures permeates each of the album's seven potent compositions.Opener InchThe Long DreamInch sets the stage with steady rain on sheet metal, punctured by thunder and metallic echoes, reverberating to the rafters in a collapsing warehouse. Quickly the tempest rises. InchA Gate Of LightInch and InchMagnetic TrapsInch both convulse in churning furies of electric demolition and rattling chains, roaring and relentless. InchThe VisitInch and InchBlack ThicketInch operate more at a distance, surveying the topography of steam, rust, and liquid metal from above, their flickers of violence like gunfire swallowed by blankets of darkness. This is noise at it's most elemental and unknowable brooding, bristling, and opaque, stalking forbidden peripheries of chaos and creation.Discussing Akita's music, English refers to it's Inchintense substrata that is purely psychedelic; it consumes and confounds.Inch The seasick swells of friction and fracture subsume the listener, forcing an auditory surrender Inchthis saturation of the senses can be a euphoria.Inch Proof comes halfway through InchThe Golden Sphere,Inch when the howling mayhe

Formed in Louisville, KY in 1991, Falling Forward was a band made up of childhood friends Benjamin Clark, Gary Bell, Jonathan Mobley, Ben Lord, and Chris Higdon. Started in their early teens, the band released a handful of recordings on a few different labels (Noble Recordings, Initial Records, and Doghouse Records) before disbanding in 1995. Higdon, Mobley, and Lord would immediately regroup as the renowned atmospheric post-hardcore band, Elliott.Falling Forward's first 7Inch was originally released as the first (and only) title on local Louisville imprint, Noble Recordings, in a scarcely limited edition of 500. Shortly thereafter, they signed to rising Detroit-turned-Louisville tag, Initial Records, for their lone full-length album, Hand Me Down. Founding member Benjamin Clark then left, replaced by Endpoint's Pat McClimans. In 1995, as their popularity and influence were peaking across the United States, Falling Forward released two final singles an acoustic split 7Inch with fellow Louisvillians, Metroschifter; and a self-titled 7Inch EP on the prolific Midwestern indie tag, Doghouse Records. All of those releases are long out-of-print, and Falling Forward's entire catalog has remained unavailable in any for over 20 years.Let These Days Pass The Complete Anthology 1991-1995 documents the entire recorded history of a young band who met in their pre-teens, wore their hearts on their collective sleeves, and incidentally inspired and influenced thousands of kids and dozens of bands (most notably Thursday) across the world with their unique union of chunky, metallic riffs, pop-punk-inspired hooks, and startlingly infectious, Sunny Day Real Estate-inspired melodicism. Restored and remastered from the original master tapes by Alan Douches at West West Side Music (The Promise Ring, Converge), Let These Days Pass is packaged in all-new artwork culled from elements of th

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