KSR32: Night Control “Death Control” CD
Night Control is the home recording project of long time KS friend Christopher Curtis Smith, the post-pop genius of this era. Mixing ambient and found sounds, electronic drum machines, analog synthesizers, upright pianos, guitars, bass, drums and effects, Night Control brings all that is good in the world onto his first official CD release. Imagine the pop brilliance of David Byrne or Brian Eno mixed with the destructive dirge of analog noise and found sounds all built into a brilliant little package that keeps you tapping your toes. Chaos theory built around tight pop structures is what Night Control does. This is the best thing we’ve heard all year. Seriously.
Tracks
1. Good Looks
2. Know Thy Peasant
3. Two Hard
4. No Making
5. 40 Years Old
6. -*-*-*-*-
7. Star 131
8. Enunciated
9. Star 129
10. Don’t Try
11. Hello Kitty
12. Trash
13. Life Control
14. 20 Years Old
15. Trouble
16. East Side
17. You’re Nine
18. Those Girls
19. For the Lanes
[...] It’s outsider pop music in the tradition of Ariel Pink or John Cale. His first LP came out on Kill Shaman a few months [...]
[...] from the as yet unnamed follow up to last year’s transitory classic-in-situ ‘Death Control‘, these new Night Control tracks suggest a certain soaring, meditative quality has been added [...]
[...] Here is a new Night Control “sample track” sent over by Kill Shaman; it brings to mind a thickly-jumbled Charles Mingus cut on lean, which is needless to say, a good thing. Night Controls new record Death Control is being released by Kill Shaman tentatively on January 12th. Who also just released the recently-rad Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin rec. You can also go over to NPIP and check out two tracks from Night Controls aforementioned album, which you can order on the Kill Shaman website. [...]
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