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Assumption [Electric Smoke Vinyl]
Assumption [Electric Smoke Vinyl]
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Landowner – Assumption [Electric Smoke Vinyl]
Description
Western Massachusetts band Landowner play abrasively-clean minimalist punk. Singer Dan Shaw started Landowner in 2016, writing and recording the project's debut Impressive Almanac with a practice amp and a laptop drum machine. Shaw's initial concept was a made-up genre called "weak d-beat", meant to sound intentionally absurd "as if Antelope were reading the sheet music of Discharge". When Shaw joined with his current bandmates in 2017, they translated these early experiments in restraint, minimalism, and caricatured hardcore as a live band. This provided Landowner with its own unique set of blueprints: the guitars "slap hard" without using any distortion or effects, the rhythm section is tight, fast, and repetitious, and the song structures make space for lyrics that reflect on the global systems and dark absurdities our lives are tangled in. Comparisons could be made to The Fall, Lungfish, or Uranium Club, but across their five albums, they make it clear: Landowner just sound like Landowner. Assumption is the band's fifth album. Sonically, it captures the vibrancy and intensity of their live performances. The album title "Assumption" encapsulates the album's multi-layered themes. We make assumptions, taking in information online through an overload of decontextualized snippets and headlines, and then quickly form conclusions, or we allow artificial intelligence to do the thinking for us. Assumption is the sound of a band that established its own musical identity and has reached a place of tightness with an ease gained from years of playing together, sounding mechanically precise and at the same time fully human. It may be the band's most cohesive and fully realized work to date.
Highlights
- Electric Smoke vinyl edition
- 12 tracks
Track Listing
Side A
01. Assumption
02. Pray for the Environment
03. Linear Age
04. Rival Males
05. Expensive Rent
06. Enemy Attack
07. Uninhabitable
Side B
01. Parapet Wall
02. Unboxing
03. Slippery Abyss
04. Bow to your Superior
05. Normal Returns to Normal
Format Details
- Label: Exploding In Sound Records
- Genre: Indie
- Format: Vinyl
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