The prolific Craig Clouse returns with another spannered set of wonked electronics yet, dismantling dub techno, Vainio-style noise, deconstructed trance, basement noise and Radiophonic blippery.
Described as "cheapo electronics", 'Joy of Joys' is an oddity in a canon of curiosities. Clouse has never made it easy for listeners, rampaging thru psych rock, drone, techno and noise without batting an eyelid, but this one veers even further out into the madness. Opener 'Joy_14' sounds like Vladislav Delay-style dub played back in a disused grain silo; all granulated repetitions stretched outside their comfort zone. Then, almost immediately, we're in completely different territory, treated to squelchy oscillations and grimy, alien noise.Clouse uses what sounds like the same setup for each track, so although the musical fingerprints are different, the sonic characteristics match up. The off-world bleeps and cavernous, unsettling reverb anchor the entire record in Clouse's imagination, and whether he's experimenting with vocal cuts or scratchy, electrified turntable spinbacks, it sounds as if it's part of the same train of thought.
There's the druggy, Spacemen 3-like 'Joy_03', mangled trance abstraction 'Joy_06' and the eerie, early tape music-inspired 'Joy_07' that creaks as if it's been submerged under salt water for decades. These haphazard, tongue-in-cheek sketches just make the more fanged moments, like the painfully bitcrushed 'Joy_15' and the nauseous, Wolf Eyes-adjacent 'Joy_05' hit even harder.
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The prolific Craig Clouse returns with another spannered set of wonked electronics yet, dismantling dub techno, Vainio-style noise, deconstructed trance, basement noise and Radiophonic blippery.
Described as "cheapo electronics", 'Joy of Joys' is an oddity in a canon of curiosities. Clouse has never made it easy for listeners, rampaging thru psych rock, drone, techno and noise without batting an eyelid, but this one veers even further out into the madness. Opener 'Joy_14' sounds like Vladislav Delay-style dub played back in a disused grain silo; all granulated repetitions stretched outside their comfort zone. Then, almost immediately, we're in completely different territory, treated to squelchy oscillations and grimy, alien noise.Clouse uses what sounds like the same setup for each track, so although the musical fingerprints are different, the sonic characteristics match up. The off-world bleeps and cavernous, unsettling reverb anchor the entire record in Clouse's imagination, and whether he's experimenting with vocal cuts or scratchy, electrified turntable spinbacks, it sounds as if it's part of the same train of thought.
There's the druggy, Spacemen 3-like 'Joy_03', mangled trance abstraction 'Joy_06' and the eerie, early tape music-inspired 'Joy_07' that creaks as if it's been submerged under salt water for decades. These haphazard, tongue-in-cheek sketches just make the more fanged moments, like the painfully bitcrushed 'Joy_15' and the nauseous, Wolf Eyes-adjacent 'Joy_05' hit even harder.
The prolific Craig Clouse returns with another spannered set of wonked electronics yet, dismantling dub techno, Vainio-style noise, deconstructed trance, basement noise and Radiophonic blippery.
Described as "cheapo electronics", 'Joy of Joys' is an oddity in a canon of curiosities. Clouse has never made it easy for listeners, rampaging thru psych rock, drone, techno and noise without batting an eyelid, but this one veers even further out into the madness. Opener 'Joy_14' sounds like Vladislav Delay-style dub played back in a disused grain silo; all granulated repetitions stretched outside their comfort zone. Then, almost immediately, we're in completely different territory, treated to squelchy oscillations and grimy, alien noise.Clouse uses what sounds like the same setup for each track, so although the musical fingerprints are different, the sonic characteristics match up. The off-world bleeps and cavernous, unsettling reverb anchor the entire record in Clouse's imagination, and whether he's experimenting with vocal cuts or scratchy, electrified turntable spinbacks, it sounds as if it's part of the same train of thought.
There's the druggy, Spacemen 3-like 'Joy_03', mangled trance abstraction 'Joy_06' and the eerie, early tape music-inspired 'Joy_07' that creaks as if it's been submerged under salt water for decades. These haphazard, tongue-in-cheek sketches just make the more fanged moments, like the painfully bitcrushed 'Joy_15' and the nauseous, Wolf Eyes-adjacent 'Joy_05' hit even harder.
The prolific Craig Clouse returns with another spannered set of wonked electronics yet, dismantling dub techno, Vainio-style noise, deconstructed trance, basement noise and Radiophonic blippery.
Described as "cheapo electronics", 'Joy of Joys' is an oddity in a canon of curiosities. Clouse has never made it easy for listeners, rampaging thru psych rock, drone, techno and noise without batting an eyelid, but this one veers even further out into the madness. Opener 'Joy_14' sounds like Vladislav Delay-style dub played back in a disused grain silo; all granulated repetitions stretched outside their comfort zone. Then, almost immediately, we're in completely different territory, treated to squelchy oscillations and grimy, alien noise.Clouse uses what sounds like the same setup for each track, so although the musical fingerprints are different, the sonic characteristics match up. The off-world bleeps and cavernous, unsettling reverb anchor the entire record in Clouse's imagination, and whether he's experimenting with vocal cuts or scratchy, electrified turntable spinbacks, it sounds as if it's part of the same train of thought.
There's the druggy, Spacemen 3-like 'Joy_03', mangled trance abstraction 'Joy_06' and the eerie, early tape music-inspired 'Joy_07' that creaks as if it's been submerged under salt water for decades. These haphazard, tongue-in-cheek sketches just make the more fanged moments, like the painfully bitcrushed 'Joy_15' and the nauseous, Wolf Eyes-adjacent 'Joy_05' hit even harder.
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The prolific Craig Clouse returns with another spannered set of wonked electronics yet, dismantling dub techno, Vainio-style noise, deconstructed trance, basement noise and Radiophonic blippery.
Described as "cheapo electronics", 'Joy of Joys' is an oddity in a canon of curiosities. Clouse has never made it easy for listeners, rampaging thru psych rock, drone, techno and noise without batting an eyelid, but this one veers even further out into the madness. Opener 'Joy_14' sounds like Vladislav Delay-style dub played back in a disused grain silo; all granulated repetitions stretched outside their comfort zone. Then, almost immediately, we're in completely different territory, treated to squelchy oscillations and grimy, alien noise.Clouse uses what sounds like the same setup for each track, so although the musical fingerprints are different, the sonic characteristics match up. The off-world bleeps and cavernous, unsettling reverb anchor the entire record in Clouse's imagination, and whether he's experimenting with vocal cuts or scratchy, electrified turntable spinbacks, it sounds as if it's part of the same train of thought.
There's the druggy, Spacemen 3-like 'Joy_03', mangled trance abstraction 'Joy_06' and the eerie, early tape music-inspired 'Joy_07' that creaks as if it's been submerged under salt water for decades. These haphazard, tongue-in-cheek sketches just make the more fanged moments, like the painfully bitcrushed 'Joy_15' and the nauseous, Wolf Eyes-adjacent 'Joy_05' hit even harder.