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Little Skull's Dean Brown and fellow London-based Kiwi, Ben Spiers, keep the wheels turning with a third Last Light outing in less than a year. The productivity is impressive, though not surprising. These are a seasoned pair well attuned to that very particular Aotearoa tradition of avant rock noise sonics, something which they lean into with real vigour and deftness on Celestial Mechanics, a seven song collection that could have quite convincingly passed for a turn of the century Corpus Hermeticum transmission. Guitars invariably rage, soar, drone or chime, while the occasional other stringed instrument, rattled percussion or ghostly vocal interjection colours the foreground, landing somewhere in the shared outerzones of Dead C, Rain and Surface of the Earth. Why is it that people from that part of the world are so much better at this kind of thing than anywhere else? Brown and Spiers keep free of the London poison and stay pure to the tradition. Last Light, but a true one.
FFO: Loren Connors, Flying Saucer Attack, Dead C, Surface of the Earth, Rain
