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Post by Susan Lawly on Dec 9, 2011 18:22:24 GMT
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Post by bucks on Jan 10, 2012 19:42:43 GMT
The release absolutely floored me after many repeated spins. Played a few cuts for my friends on New Year's Eve who are not into Whitehouse at all, and even they couldn't resist the intensity. I think it's the best stuff WB's done since Mummy and Daddy.
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Post by Susan Lawly on Jan 15, 2012 16:05:13 GMT
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Post by Susan Lawly on Jan 17, 2012 13:31:04 GMT
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Post by Susan Lawly on Jan 24, 2012 6:43:12 GMT
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Post by Joe Chip on Mar 15, 2012 17:50:21 GMT
I will say that I initially found the Cut Hands album very disappointing. I hadn't enjoyed the Afro Noise download mix either, it just struck me as a rehash of the instrumental passages in late era live WH. On first few listens I thought the album was bland coffee table ambience, dirtydisco in his articulate critique posted above summed up my thoughts. I didn't say anything as I know how badly I react to criticism myself. The "if you can't say anything nice..." theory.
Recently I've been playing it almost every day. It took the best part of a year to seep into me. I don't think anything about this record is as it seems, and certainly not its self-conscious positioning as 'art' which an initial reading of the sleevenotes mischievously suggests. I'm still fascinated, still finding more possible responses, still confused (and I enjoy being confused, dazzled, entranced). I now hear the three tracks from Whitehouse albums as Cut Hands tracks and can't imagine them as anything else.
I was on a train at night last year when I first looked at the booklet. When I turned the page and saw the words HOW GOOD ARE YOU AT NOT NOTICING LIGHT? all the lights in the carriage went off at that moment.
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Post by Danhod on Mar 15, 2012 22:13:53 GMT
I was on a train at night last year when I first looked at the booklet. When I turned the page and saw the words HOW GOOD ARE YOU AT NOT NOTICING LIGHT? all the lights in the carriage went off at that moment. Yeah I believe you Its hard enough reading that booklet in a well light silent room, let alone a train Haha. But because it asks: If I put my mind to it I am good at ignoring light (but if you ignore it you must have noticed it was there first?), but in an unprepared state, not so much! Well if you are good at not noticing light you must be a terrible driver Haha!
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Post by Joe Chip on Mar 15, 2012 22:23:09 GMT
I was on a train at night last year when I first looked at the booklet. When I turned the page and saw the words HOW GOOD ARE YOU AT NOT NOTICING LIGHT? all the lights in the carriage went off at that moment. Yeah I believe you True experience, honestly. Trippy shit.
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Post by still cruisin' on Mar 16, 2012 10:51:13 GMT
Still not very excited about Afro Noise 1 and that's perfectly fine with me considering there were several Whitehouse records in the past that I still don't feel too strongly about (such as M+D, which seems to be a huge favourite among fans in general). So more than anything else I'm very curious as to where this project is heading to.
Sadly I didn't get my hands on the Japanese EP when it was still available as I absolutely love the track "Krokodilo" that I recently discovered at youtube. Probably from the very same sessions as the album material (just guessing here!), yet somehow it really hit the spot for me while most of Afro Noise 1 clearly didn't. Definitely going to listen when the next one comes out!
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Post by Danhod on Mar 16, 2012 11:56:27 GMT
I'm not sure if there were actual 'sessions' but a continuous work over the years?
It is a breath of fresh air. If theres only one thing that changes in the next record, I would love a little more speed.
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Post by Danhod on Mar 18, 2012 21:46:50 GMT
I wonder what tracks will be on the 7"? 'Also scheduled is a magazine package that will combine the first physical edition of Adverse Effect magazine since 2005 with an exclusive 7” by William Bennett’s Cut Hands and a special print only available with the first 100' lumberton-trading.com/news.html
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Post by Susan Lawly on Mar 19, 2012 16:49:03 GMT
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Post by Susan Lawly on Apr 4, 2012 21:48:36 GMT
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Post by Joe Chip on May 3, 2012 10:19:37 GMT
amour-discipline.org/zine/5-reviews-by-a-s-c/Issue 86 of the excellent and elusive samizdat style publication 'Hiroshima Yeah!' also features a review of the Cut Hands album by Gary Simmons in his usual inimitable style. No website.
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Post by Danhod on May 3, 2012 10:53:40 GMT
amour-discipline.org/zine/5-reviews-by-a-s-c/Issue 86 of the excellent and elusive samizdat style publication 'Hiroshima Yeah!' also features a review of the Cut Hands album by Gary Simmons in his usual inimitable style. No website. I was looking for this mix as I lost the mp3 last time, so thanks for posting!
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