Thread Pulls: Summer Songs EP Summer Songs' five improvised tracks were recorded by Thread Pulls (guitarist Gavin Duffy, drummer Ed Kelly, and bassist Peter Maybury) during one day-long session in Dublin during June 2004, with vocal and electronic elements added later. Unfortunately, much of the EP reveals the waywardness characteristic of much improvised music, so a promising ostinato pulse of snarling guitars and noises in “Bell Drone,” for example, fails to develop; “Summer” also sounds directionless, and an overlay of thin vocals doesn't help. “Building” succeeds, though, specifically by suggesting the band's potential as a Crimson-like metal trio. The label's site proclaims its desire to “release music that we feel needs to be heard and documented.” A laudable goal certainly, but there's not much here that sounds like it desperately needed to be preserved. January 2005
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