Music For The Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs

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The digital edition of Shackleton’s latest release slaps a series of widescreen EPs (<i>The Drawbar Organ</i>) alongside an equally ambitious album (<i>Music for the Quiet Hour</i>), leaving open-minded listeners with nearly two and a half hours of new music to wade through. And what a daunting digestive tract of sonic detritus this is, sending the producer’s singular version of percussive bass music through a dizzying array of ominous pipe organs, vaporized vocals, slow-building beatscapes, frothy feedback, hazy red herrings, and paranoid spoken-word passages (the abstract poetry of Vengeance Tenfold, which emerges from the ether like the learned words of a post-apocalyptic wiseman). As for what separates Shackleton’s EPs from his latest long-player, that’s really a matter of mood and tempo. While <i>The Drawbar Organ</i> is spacious and sound-designy, <i>Music for the Quiet Hour</i> is as live and direct as this kind of thing (read: experimental but engrossing) gets. To quote one of Vengeance Tenfold's standout lines, "Music is the weapon of the future." Indeed.

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