Sic Alps
Sic Alps, a messy, gritty indie rock affair rooted in noise pop and the Velvet Underground's seminal soporific lo-fi, formed in the early 2000s as a collaboration between Matt Hartman (formerly of Henry's Dress) and Mike Donovan (formerly of the Ropers); the two met in the late '90s while on tour with their respective bands. Starting with Semi-Streets, their cassette-only debut single released on Folding in the fall of 2004, Sic Alps released a little over half a dozen singles over the course of the next four years, along with three EPs (2006's {^The...[more]
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Sic Alps make music with their eyes on the past but their feet firmly in the present. Bits of psychedelia, folk, garage, and punk fairly well flow from their fingers, seamlessly worked together to render easy categorizations pointless. Over the course of numerous singles and albums on such fine labels as Siltbreeze, Mt. St. Mtn, and Woodsist, Sic Alps' Mike Donovan and Matt Hartman have carved themselves a snug niche filled with fuzz, crackle, vibes, and most of all, cracking tunes. Continuing th [ read more ]
MP3 $2.10
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U.S. EZ is the fourth long-player in the Sic Alps canon (excluding the recent singles comp CD, A Long Way Around to a Shortcut), and their first for the Siltbreeze label. Fans of last year's amazing Description of the Harbor LP will not be disappointed, especially if they want to hear Side A's cosmic concrete creak, forged with the trebly, high-end neo-glam pop of Side B. The duo of Mike Donovan and Matt Hartman outdo themselves here and it is the most fully realized Sic Alps [ read more ]
MP3 $10.49
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