Bowery Electric

by Bowery Electric

Bowery Electric cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 16 August 1995
  • Label: Kranky
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:11:58
  • Community rating: 3.72/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: Lawrence Chandler, Martha Schwendener, Michael Johngren

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The New York duo's debut full-length utilized immense, incredibly slow-moving waves of heavily distorted guitar feedback anchored by deeply hypnotic, minimal bass lines. Completely abandoning traditional song structures, the lethargic, deeply textured drones blur the line between American shoegaze and pure dark ambient music. The incredibly loud, isolating recording established them as a crucial, uniquely abrasive force within the Kranky label roster.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, atmospheric, effects-laden, dreamy, droning, ambient, downtempo, lo-fi

Tracklist

  1. Sounds In Motion (03:01)
  2. Next To Nothing (06:30)
  3. Long Way Down (04:12)
  4. Another Road (05:34)
  5. Over And Over (02:30)
  6. Deep Sky Objects (05:04)
  7. Slow Thrills (10:27)
  8. Out Of Phase (05:36)
  9. Drift Away (06:18)
  10. Drop (05:28)
  11. Let Me Down (04:34)
  12. Head on Fire (05:34)
  13. Only Sometimes (07:10)

Credits

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