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Rho
October Turncoat
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This is what No-Source said about this release
mellow electronic / ambient / acoustic music. Rho is childhood friends Steve Setzepfandt and Josh Wittman. No-Source worked with Rho to curate the October Turncoat EP. October Turncoat sets out of show off Rho's more acoustic side. Each track contains washes of guitar complimented with subtle ambient texture. The EP often evokes the sounds of early Bibio or "The Campfire Headphase" era Boards of Canada. Three songs, Simpl, JW2 and The Game of Flowers are all taken from Rho's 2008 debut, "Breathing Through the Liquid System". The songs, Long Drive Home and Lightning Strikes and LEDs are taken from Rho's most recent album "Glass Memories". The EP contains one previously unreleased track, And More Rain, a 5 minute journey of backwards guitars, subtle picking, drums and end of a season.
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Carl Sagan's Ghost, 1/7/2010
I really like guitar-based ambient music. Especially when it's drenched in otherworldly f/x and created using interesting sonic textures. Rho's October Turncoat is just such an album. As a matter of fact, it may be the best such album I've heard all year. This is kind of "best of" collection with songs culled from two of the band's commercial releases. I haven't heard those, but I can say that this album does work as a cohesive unit; it doesn't sound like a simple collection of songs, but rather like an album. The opening track "Simpl" is amazing. Lush guitars coupled with some nice drum loops and electronics make it interesting on a variety of levels. "JW2" the second track opens with the sound of a guitar seemingly recorded underwater on an old tape, before evolving into a nice little acoustic jam. On my best of 2009 netlabel releases, for sure..
       
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