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- Date Released: March 11, 2003
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Darla / IODA
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They Say...
Pure Tone Audiometry is pure bliss. On his third album as Aarktica, Jon DeRosa hit an ingenious balance between avant-gardist guitar soundscapes, neo-folk songwriting, and post-rock dreaminess. "Out to Sea" opens the set with lush overdubbed and processed female vocals (Lorraine Lelis) over backwards guitar. Then DeRosa sings about "The Mimicry All Women Use" in a stark but ear-catching voice. The simple strummed guitar accompaniment gets a boost halfway into the track from Escapade's drummer Hadley Kahn -- at that point he should have lost the drum machine track, as the two don't always stay in sync, but that's a minor point. "Snowstorm Ruins Birthday" offers a slab of well-controlled atmospheric noise guitar before "Ocean" comes back to the indie rock ballad format. For "Big Year" and "Williamsburg Counterpoint," Aarktica turns into a real band, adding Molly Sheridan and Mahogany's Andrew Prinz on strings, bassist Ernie Adzentoivich, and the aforementioned Kahn. The former song is dark and understated, but the latter serves up a thrilling 11-minute post-rock flight replete with a slow beat and a distorted sustained guitar solo. These "band" tracks show a lot of promise, but it is their power combined to the seditious charm of the smaller-scale songs that makes Pure Tone Audiometry such a delightful album. Recommended.
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| 01. |  |
Out to Sea |
4:22 |  |
| 02. | |
The Mimicry All Woman Use |
5:51 | |
| 03. | |
Snowstorm Ruins Birthday |
3:56 | |
| 04. | |
Ocean |
4:41 | |
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Big Year |
8:32 | |
| 06. | |
Water Wakes Dead Cells |
5:09 | |
| 07. | |
Williamsburg Counterpoint |
12:32 | |
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Credits
- Jimmy Hoff - Photography // Hadley Kahn - Drums // Charles Newman - Harmonium // Charles Newman - Producer // Aarktica - Main Performer // Jon DeRosa - Guitar // Jon DeRosa - Programming // Jon DeRosa - Vocals // Jon DeRosa - Producer // Jon DeRosa - Loops // Larry Cazenave - Assistant // Larry Cazenave - Studio Assistant // William Bahan - Design // Lorraine Lelis - Vocals
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