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Lessons in the Woods or the City
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When Seattle art-punk band Talbot Tagora’s album Lessons in the Woods or the City hits your eardrum, the effect is one of transportation. This album is a passport to a cold world of mechanization, urban decay, and woefully detached manual labor. On the standout opening track “Mixed Signals Through Miles of Pilgrimage,” Talbot Tagora construct a groundwork of androgynous, high-pitched vocals that sound like muffled calls for help from underneath your basement floorboards, stabbing traffic-jam guitar riffs, muddied bass tones that could have been discovered on a deep sea exploration by Steve Zissou, and drum beats that seem to be propelling the wheels of some devious apparatus. Aside from levels of intensity, the album does not veer radically from this aural theme. Perhaps, the most interesting element of Lessons is the seamless shift from repetitively-crunching punk noise to submerged psychedelic trance, all embedded within a two-to-three minute song. Talbot Tagora has crafted a unique album that thrives and suffers from its inherent repetition. If you have ever pondered what Sonic Youth might sound like had they worked in a coal mine for a living, then this is for you. (Hardly Art)
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