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Imagine a 2 dimensional graph.  An x-axis running from drone on the left (-10) to melodic on the right (10).  A y-axis from acoustic at the bottom (-10) to electronic at the top (10).  Plot these:

The record charges in like a hellish Glenn Branca guitar symphony with “La Guerre de Sept Ans” (-9,5).  Roused from this nightmare, Piolard tumbles out of bed, picks up a guitar, strums it while looking out the open window; sounds of the outside drift through on “Together and Down (0,-5). 

After coffee, perks up with the likes of “Ext Leslie Park” (5, -5), “Sous Le Plage” (7, -6) and “Triggering Back” (7, -7).  Tunes busked on a windy beach in winter.  Jaunty strumming betrays cold fingers squeaking on strings.  Between songs, pause, reflect, alone.  In “Moth wings” (-3, 2), Basinki-like piano memories struggle to make themselves heard over a rising tide.

Precis is the debut album from 20 year old with a guitar and a box of magic noise.  Like Khonnor’s effort from last year, this weaves folk with shoegaze with hints of the treated guitar excursions of Fennesz and labelmate Tim Hecker.  If the graph had a z-axis from ignore at -10, to CHECK THIS OUT NOW at 10, I’d be consistently plotting this at the upper positive end. 

Listen to mp3s of Triggering Back, Alan and Dawn and Patter courtesy of Brainwashed and Kranky