VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Limited pressing of 1,000! On 180 gram white vinyl. Includes a CD copy of the album. Alpinisms is an electronically enhanced pop record of dizzying highs and claustrophobic lows whose painstaking conception shows in its detail-laden crevices. On the album's best tracks - the polyrhythmic dream-pop of "Face to Face in High Places," the nervous shimmer of "My Cabal," the menacing lilt of "Iamundernodisguise" - Curtis constructs layers of shoegazing, moire-patterned gu...   [ read more ]

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Ben Curtis' desertion of Secret Machines and the breakup of On!Air!Library! was justified by this group's first single, a sky-gliding confection that modernized the sighing, swirling, private dancefloor sides of Medicine, Seefeel, and My Bloody Valentine. Included as the finale on Alpinisms, the debut album from Curtis and O!A!L!'s singing Deheza twins, "My Cabal" has the feel of a bonus track; the later recordings that precede it, despite remaining squarely within the doma...   [ read more ]

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