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Mono : Snowdrop | Album review | Treble

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By Kurt Orzeck Verified
| Treble Zine
It wasn’t a trend per se, but in the late ‘90s, three Japanese bands of exceptional talent voyaged to the States and were welcomed with open arms: psych-rock sorcerers Acid Mothers Temple, post-metal stage strutters Boris and Mono. It’s remarkable enough that the trio of bands are all still active, touring and making new music.
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Mekons, “Horrorble (Mekons vs. Tony Maimone in Dub Conference)”

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By Kurt Orzeck Verified
| FLOOD Magazine Verified
At the ripe age of 50, the Leeds post-punk/alt-country collective revisits last year’s under-the-radar Horror LP as a dub record with the aid of Pere Ubu’s Tony Maimone. Aren’t familiar with Mekons? Well, you may be in the majority, even among punk historians—and that’s a damn shame.
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Warning : Rituals of Shame

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By Kurt Orzeck Verified
| Treble Zine
It doesn’t happen all the time, but certainly sometimes trained ears can detect when what they are hearing are songs whose creator has spent years, if not decades, chiseling, reworking, chipping away at and eventually sanding them to what he considers to be as close to perfection as he can accomplish. If such songs were chopped apart lengthwise, at least a couple dozen rings would be exposed on the trunk.
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