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Label Profile: Fällt
Alexander Turnquist

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4 Bonjour's Parties
AGF
Atlas Sound
Autistic Daughters
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Evan Bartholomew
Sylvain Chauveau
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Dot Tape Dot
Fessenden
Floriana vs. Màcro
Florian Hecker
I Am A Vowel
Jaermulk Manhattan
Steve Jansen
LabField
Liar's Rosebush
Eliot Lipp
Luminous
Mojib
Monocle
Nicolay & Kay
Panda Riot
Ghislain Poirier
Prosumer & Murat Tepeli
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Starting Teeth
Carl Stone
Strings of Consciousness
Suite Crude Revue
Text Adventure
Alexander Turnquist
Valet
Viirus
Willits + Sakamoto
Yaporigami

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Armin Van Buuren
Caroline
Goodbye Said the Rain
Sieben Mal Solo
A Weevil in a Biscuit

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A Setting Sun
The Bug ft. Warrior Queen
Myungho Choi
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Itosha
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l'Objet
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The Retail Sectors
Socks & Sandals
Someone Else
Trembling Blue Stars
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Autistic Daughters: Uneasy Flowers
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Autistic Daughters—guitarist and vocalist Dean Roberts, percussionist Martin Brandlmayr, and bassist Werner Dafeldecker—returns with its sophomore effort Uneasy Flowers. Raconteur Roberts builds the material around a narrative involving a protagonist named Rehana and his reflections, both inner and outer, upon the people and places around him. The noir-like character of the evocative lyric writing (like “Rehana opens his mouth / Supplements his excess with elixir”) is intensified when Roberts delivers them in his familiar desperate and tortured croak. The impressionistic flow that discloses the contents of Rehana's psychic topography is mirrored in the organic instrumental accompaniment the group nurtures throughout. One of the most appealing things about the trio's smoky murder ballads is their organic, spontaneous feel; the songs breathe like living organisms with their acoustic essence subtly bolstered by Brandlmayr's computer-based processing and inspired touches, such as the shotgun snare spatter in “Uneasy Flower” and the seething guitar snarl that bleeds through “Gin Over Sour Milk.” Martin Siewert adds mandoguitar to one song and Chris Abrahams lends pianistic presence to three others, but in general Uneasy Flowers is a pure and undistilled representation of Autistic Daughters' sound (succinct, too, given the album's svelte thirty-six-minute duration). The opener “Rehana's Theme” is typical of the band's style, with Roberts' whisper accompanied by the sparse punctuation of Abrahams' piano, the bowed scrape of Dafeldecker's double bass, and Brandlmayr's vibes. Existential sonic musings that exude that finger-tracing-along-the-razor's-edge feel, Uneasy Flowers provides a natural complement to the books by Raymond Chandler and Cormac McCarthy crowding one's night-table.

February 2008