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Music from the Film
Playfully Abrasive
World War Tree
Self-released
A sort of What's-He-Building-In-There kind of guy, Music From The Film's Gary Young is a sonic one man army, a multi-instrumentalist with a penchant for studied chaos. Although Young is accompanied by his cohort Arthur Harrison (once dubbed "The Cacophonator"), this is really Young's show. A former member of the noise outfits New Killers On The Block and Drooling Zoomers, Young is no stranger to cacophony and disorder—in fact, judging by these releases, he thrives on a self-styled brand of musical entropy. The twenty-four tracks on Playfully Abrasive range from metallic grinders ("The Daily Commute") to brooding industrial shoegazing ("Boiler Room") to backwards clanging that sound like Tom Waits in reverse ("Music In Paris").
The fifteen-track World War Tree took Young and Harrison two years to record and while it doesn't deviate from Playfully Abrasive's pedagogy, it's richer and more adventurous. Held together by well-chosen samples of poems, commercials and...cats, World War Tree ups the ante on audio chaos—numbers like "Gold Doesn't Grow On Trees" is held together with fugitive bits of television commercials, banjos and maracas; "Grandmother Willow" is a warped blast of white noise and "Hunting Bonsai" has a singular charm that's augmented by the use of sheet metal. Really. But the real trump card here is the almost eleven minute "Space Debris," which is a sonic workout of galactic proportions—it's number that writhes itself into a lather and ends in a quiet, but palpable liftoff.
—Alex Green
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