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Nil​/​Resplendent ~ Lesser Free Trade

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1.
A Congegation of Vapors 02:43
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2.
On Patrician Strings 06:06
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3.
Not a Script for This World 05:04
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4.
A Fever Dream of Antidotes 05:12
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In Between the Stations 04:44
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You Can't Hide It 05:25
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Jubilee is the Light 08:43
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8.
Don't Let It Bring You Down 03:26
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The first new music in 17 years from Michael Lenzi and Seth Kim-Cohen (both formerly of the Fire Show and Number One Cup). Lesser Free Trade aims for the sweet spot between songs and experiments. It's informed by dub, on the one hand, postpunk, on the other, without sounding overtly like either. Melody matters. But so too does incongruity. Like the late, great Mark E. Smith, we dig repetition-uh. But like Deleuze, we don't believe in repetition. Change happens, even when it doesn't. So there. A subverted pop sensibility lurks in what we're doing, similar in some ways to Brazilian music from Tropicalia onwards. But without the bossa nova fundaments. There's also a subliminal no wave recalcitrance buried in some of the structures and sounds, but you'd have to listen imaginatively to hear it. Ethiopian grooves and Beninese funk are similarly hidden in the DNA of what we're up to. There may be an echo of our work in The Fire Show, in which electronics and pointy guitars stitch together epochs and aesthetics, easy on the surface and difficult in its bowels.

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released April 17, 2019

Mixed by Brian Deck at Trim House.
Recorded by Nil/Resplendent.
All songs (save one) by Nil/Resplendent.

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The Fire Show Chicago, Illinois

The Fire Show & related things involving Olias Nil and/or
M. Resplendent.

"Stark, dubbish funk with punk penknife and splatter; left-wing epics constructed from right angles, made by (sm)art school punks interested in the feet and the brain, the ground and the lofty heavens."
(Jay Babcock,
L.A. Weekly) ... more

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