Altered Zones

Mutant Sounds says:
Perfect Vacuum create a perfect pop storm by bum-rushing the backwash of 40+ years of radio culture. The project is the brainchild of Dave Marsh (aka Xentos "Frey" Bentos, aka L. Voag, aka Jim Whelton) of post punk legends The Homosexuals, and Lukas Simonis, a perennial Rotterdam fringe mover and collaborator of Felix Kubin. These two imps of the perverse reveal themselves here for the epic melody craftsmen they are, creating a "pop" of idiomatic seams, bursting under the pressure of applied irreverence. "I Am the Walrus" cellos hold harmonized, deftly pitched vocals aloft before getting sideswiped with a temporal shift into Ghost Box electronic "library music" screwiness.

MP3: Perfect Vacuum: "Stories of the American Civil Wars"

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