Good Willsmith — 14 Years of Desperate Research
CASSETTE + DIGITAL
CATALOG UR064 — Released March 2014
Recorded live in a single session by Maxwell Allison, Natalie Chami & Doug Kaplan. Presented without overdubs. Recorded and mixed by Doug Kaplan.
Artwork by Daniel Castrejón.
TRACKLIST / 43 minutes
01 Documents that you don t understand
02 No-one wants to end up with memory
CASSETTE — SOLD OUT
DIGITAL FORMATS ︎︎︎ BANDCAMP
DIGITAL FORMATS ︎︎︎ BANDCAMP
14 Years of Desperate Research documents Good Willsmith's live performances from shortly after their formation in 2012. The album's two sessions showcase the band in a period of dense, metal- and noise-infused drone improvisation, predating their experiments with physical media sampling and extra-textual spoken word elements. "Documents that you don t understand" expands over trails of endless sustain and Max Allison's oscillator-derived low-end, conflating Natalie Chami's looped vocal mantras and Doug Kaplan's piercing guitar shred into a damaged high-end assault. On b-side "No one wants to end up with memory," Kaplan and Allison maintain minutes-long loops of squalling white noise and bass brutality as Chami's voice and synth leads weave through the accumulating layers.
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