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Along with a liberal dose of borrowed beats and noises, the eleven songs on Kleptophonica include healthy splatterings of cassette deck tomfoolery, Speak'n'Spell abuse, typewriter percussion, lap steel warblings, echo nonsense, singing into the washing machine experiments, push-button sample blasts, as well as more conventional instrumentation like drum sets, maracas and keyboards. Using varying degrees of "unauthorized remixing," Agent Nova and Mor-X (both veterans of Milk Cult and Steel Pole Bath Tub) aim each song in its own direction, as melodies and rhythms are added and twisted and stretched on top of tape loops and scratchy thrift store records. The result is a softer, gentler sort of Frankenstein.
Mor-X : "This is not an attempt to understand confusion or a confused attempt at understanding. This is learning to relax and not lick so hard that the porcelain comes off the bowl." Agent Nova : "In the art world it's an accepted practice to use other people's images to comment on the culture itself. But in the music world its way more uptight; no one wants anyone drawing a mustache on their Mona Lisa." |