{"id":1442,"date":"2016-12-09T11:07:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2016-12-09T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:18:51","slug":"attnmagazine-on-slight-at-that-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2016\/12\/attnmagazine-on-slight-at-that-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"ATTN:Magazine on <em>Slight At That Contact<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>words from Jack Chuter at ATTN:Magazine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is music in a larval state. Through a process of unfurling and awakening, Slight At That Contact exercises all of the phonetic and gestural behaviours that will later be refined into language&#8230;The album is finding its feet, condensing open drones into communicative shapes, refining gurgles of distortion into phonemes, sharpening the slurs of sibilance into pointed patterns of musical meaning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attnmagazine.co.uk\/music\/11017\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.attnmagazine.co.uk\/music\/11017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>full review below:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is music in a larval state. Through a process of unfurling and awakening, <em>Slight At That Contact <\/em>exercises all of the phonetic and gestural behaviours that will later be refined into language. Segmented body parts unsheathe to the crack of acoustic plosive, as keyboards gurgle and click like a vocal mechanism hydrated and stretched for the first time. Movements are tentative, pressing against joint stiffness and the uncertainty of nascent life, emerging as hums that falter like drowsy probe signals; the first broadcasts of new-born amplifiers and organs, lubricating dry circuitry with fresh electricity, uncurling from cocoons to let the universe in. Field recordings (conversation, the rustles and clatters of warehouse work, echoes of birdsong) smear the edges of the frame, warped through ears that aren\u2019t yet trained to hear them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What will the album grow to become? I think I can hear the early stirs of blues: distorted harmonies agitate the overdriven signal, while vibrato sends keyboards into melancholic tremble. For every sound that possesses the kernel of familiar\u00a0music, there\u2019s another that delights me in its failure and emptiness: a gasp of microphone interference, an incontinent leakage of shrill amplifier feedback, a glitch that stammers over a solitary keyboard note. I love\u00a0the embryonic intentions of <em>Slight At That Contact<\/em>, but also its miscarriages of transmission \u2013 the occasions when\u00a0tones are choked into silence midway through announcing themselves, or when the warmth of recognisable notes is shunted aside for belches of ungated static. The album is finding its feet, condensing open drones into communicative shapes, refining gurgles of distortion into phonemes, sharpening the slurs of sibilance into pointed patterns of musical meaning. Evidently, organic growth makes for a messy trial-and-error process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>words from Jack Chuter at ATTN:Magazine&#8230; &#8220;This is music in a larval state. Through a process of unfurling and awakening, Slight At That Contact exercises all of the phonetic and gestural behaviours that will later be refined into language&#8230;The album is finding its feet, condensing open drones into communicative shapes, refining gurgles of distortion into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,32,26],"tags":[62,28,69,57,16],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-release","category-review","tag-lp","tag-music","tag-review","tag-solo","tag-students-of-decay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1451,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2017\/01\/tiny-mix-tapes-on-slight-at-that-contact\/","url_meta":{"origin":1442,"position":0},"title":"Tiny Mix Tapes on Slight At That Contact","author":"billy gomberg","date":"January 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Jason Cabaniss writes on Slight At That Contact for TMT Cerberus: \"...cold electroacoustic tones numb the senses with a wall of hushed distortion...One could listen to escape the darkness that surrounds us, but Slight at that Contact invites in the harsh tones we relegate to the background, providing a soothing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1427,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2016\/11\/200-words-slight-at-that-contact\/","url_meta":{"origin":1442,"position":1},"title":"200 Words: Slight At That Contact","author":"billy gomberg","date":"November 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Slight At That Contact featured at 200 Words! 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But the activity situated at the periphery raises doubts about where the real action lies. Maybe\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1432,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2016\/11\/omgvinyl-slight-at-that-contact\/","url_meta":{"origin":1442,"position":3},"title":"OMGVinyl: Slight At That Contact","author":"billy gomberg","date":"November 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via\u00a0http:\/\/www.omgvinyl.com\/billy-gomberg-slight-at-that-contact-lp\/ One great thing about Gomberg\u2019s work, is his use of the room. Every surface in said room, whether small and wooden, or large and cavernous, they all seem to be alive, pulsing and critical to the sound\u2019s over all success\u2014and Slight At That Contact is certainly that. 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