{"id":1678,"date":"2011-04-26T11:58:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2011-04-26T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:58:18","slug":"major-organ-and-the-adding-machine-major-organ-and-the-adding-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/04\/26\/major-organ-and-the-adding-machine-major-organ-and-the-adding-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Organ and the Adding Machine &#8211; Major Organ and the Adding Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/major-organ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1680\" title=\"major-organ\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/major-organ-299x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis  Major Organ album is quite possibly the most confusing and alienating  record born from the great womb of the Elephant 6. Suspected fathers  from bands Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal, Apples In Stereo and Olivia  Tremor Control came together and&#8230; made&#8230; this! It&#8217;s definitely a  pop-album, one slathered in sounds reminiscent of the &#8220;Combinations&#8221;  from OTC&#8217;s album Black Foliage;  spliced-up tape pieces, pastiches of perverted pop, &#8220;non-music&#8221; to some  (or perhaps to most). Those who dislike the weirdness of OTC&#8217;s  splintered weirdo songs or NMH&#8217;s bent carnival music would best ignore  this; you won&#8217;t find what you want here. Here are a lot of songs, many  ideas of songs, buried under electronic gauze and hazy shards of broken  sounds. Anything that makes a noise is an instrument. It&#8217;s very strange  and it&#8217;s very, very beautiful.<br \/>\nThis  reissue tacks on 8 bonus tracks, including the Christmas compilation  contribution, a cover of &#8220;What A Wonderful World&#8221; (pretty tough to muck  this one up) and a DVD of the same name. It&#8217;s a short film starring E6  luminaries, weird costumes, homemade creations and two cute kids plunked  down in one of the weirdest situations committed to video. Both the  album and movie are whimsical and childlike, expression without fear of  rejection. That kind of innocent experimentation yields a bushel of  aural happiness. And it&#8217;s a great bonus for the CD-buying consumer.  There&#8217;s a lot of gold that there well, you just gotta go deep \u2019n\u2019 dig.  (Orange Twin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangetwin.com\">www.orangetwin.com<\/a>) <strong>Patrick Michalishyn<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Major Organ album is quite possibly the most confusing and alienating record born from the great womb of the Elephant 6. Suspected fathers from bands Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal, Apples In Stereo and Olivia Tremor Control came together and&#8230; made&#8230; this! It&#8217;s definitely a pop-album, one slathered in sounds reminiscent of the &#8220;Combinations&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[308,585],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-elephant-6","tag-major-organ-and-the-adding-machine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}