{"id":2853,"date":"2011-10-25T13:08:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T19:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2011-10-25T13:08:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T19:08:44","slug":"angels-in-america-weyes-blood-split-cassette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/10\/25\/angels-in-america-weyes-blood-split-cassette\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels in America \/ Weyes Blood &#8211; Split Cassette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"internal-source-marker_0.4765922408118769\" dir=\"ltr\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2856\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2011\/10\/25\/angels-in-america-weyes-blood-split-cassette\/aia_wisebloodsplitcover-233x300\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2856\" title=\"AiA_WiseBloodSplitCover-233x300\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/AiA_WiseBloodSplitCover-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F18080016\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" src=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F18080016\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/northernspyrecs\/03-angels-in-america-the\">Angels in America &#8211; The Corpse<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/northernspyrecs\">Northern-Spy Records<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Angels_in_America\/\">Angels  in America<\/a> are Baltimore based duo Moppy and Merv, who make sex crush  music that is too smart, and too aggressive, to be called spaced out and  too real life to be associated with the words witch or house. Past  Angels releases (including 2009&#8217;s EP on Ecstatic Peace) have been moody,  terribly recorded, barely decipherable noise hymns flirting with melody  in a very special lo-fi heroin daze. In comparison, these three tracks,  though equally knee weakening, make up a sludgier, more mature gothic  masterpiece. It&#8217;s exciting to see where this band is at now. The gems  found on <em>Split Cassette<\/em> are  all the more precious in that they&#8217;re cut short so soon \u2013 the release&#8217;s  climax, the final minute of \u201cThe Corpse,\u201d is also the final 60 seconds  of the Angels side. Taking a song that clocks in at almost seven minutes  and keeping things loose and droney for over five before erupting into  some kind of bass heavy, weird synth-infused murder anthem (accented by  Angel&#8217;s long time signature ambient whistling and the rare treat of  Merv&#8217;s snarled vocals) is definition tweenoise. I&#8217;m addicted.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/nataliewiseblood\" target=\"_blank\">Weyes  Blood<\/a> begins the reverse side with two tracks that, ignoring whatever  underground neo-folk mystique Natalie Mering might have achieved, read  as lost-on-purpose Joan Baez b-sides, after which the third and final  song apexes with vocals played backwards over some synths and random  noise, which as a whole isn&#8217;t very interesting. Side B is a lot like  what I&#8217;ve seen of Mering&#8217;s live show \u2013 sometimes hypnotic and  atmospheric, sometimes tedious. I don&#8217;t get making psych music in 2011  that could pass for forgettable music from 50 years ago \u2013 the effort  seems pointless and even regressive. I&#8217;m not giving up on Weyes, but for  now I&#8217;ll stick to Angels.<br \/>\nSpeaking of, check out Merv of AiA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1700204154\/pleasure-and-the-gorgon\" target=\"_blank\">PLEASURE Editions and newsletter The Gorgon<\/a>, a small press project, which just reached its Kickstarter start-up goal. (Northern Spy, <a href=\"http:\/\/northern-spy.com\/%29\">northern-spy.com)<\/a> <strong>Kristel Jax<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angels in America &#8211; The Corpse by Northern-Spy Records Angels in America are Baltimore based duo Moppy and Merv, who make sex crush music that is too smart, and too aggressive, to be called spaced out and too real life to be associated with the words witch or house. Past Angels releases (including 2009&#8217;s EP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50,677,1094],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-angels-in-america","tag-northern-spy-records","tag-weyes-blood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853","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=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}