Description
*This is NOT a CD*
Release Year: 2015
Label: Independent
Track List
Side A
- Spaceracer
- Metatron’s Cube
- Gesticulating Replicant
- Popsicle Gang
- Beach
Side B
- Wonton/ Taun-Taun
- Apophenia
- Desertrix
Personnel
- Pat Condon – Guitar
- Will Gilbert – Drums
- Marc Laporte – Keys
- Brad Theard – Bass
Notes
Metronome The City is a band from New Orleans that formed over 15 years ago. Their form of “schizophrenic rock” caught the ear of experimental pioneer. John Zorn who invited them to play an experimental rock music showcase in New York. The band consists of bass, drums, guitars, keys, samplers. They also use radio frequencies and vocoder voices to fill out their dystopian sound. Live shows are accompanied by film projections, while their recording invoke cinematic textures of the avant-garde and noir, space and surf rock, sludge metal and dub reggae. They contain elements of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Medeski Martin & Wood, Fugazi, Trans Am, Sonic Youth and King Crimson. Isonomia is the outfit’s third full-length album and was recorded in carious spaces in New Orleans between 2012 and 2015.
Reviewed In OffBeat
David Kunian (March 2015 Issue)
Metronome the City’s new record Isonomnia mixes 1970s progressive rock and fusion with current ambient textures to make for a listening experience that is revealing and fascinating from the outset.
They also don’t fall prey to the endless noodling of prog nor the repetitive-veering-to-monotony rhythms of ambient and EDM music.
There is a mix of the clean and the dirty here with the melodies having a chiming or ringing tone while the drums and rhythm guitar have a dirty distortion.
The music is cinematic in that it takes the listener places. There are journeys and travels, both inner and outer, in the music here. All the sounds that make up the songs are precise and integrated with each other. There are traces of Pink Floyd in “Beach” in the way that the song slowly unfolds with deliberation and psychedelic pacing.
Other tracks hit hard and martial like the Tangerine Dream elements in “Gesticulating Replicant” or almost pastoral (if a record that is this electronic can be called pastoral) in “Wonton/Taun-Taun.”
Kudos to Metronome The City for making an instrumental record that is tight and exciting. Such a feat is not an easy one.
