American Dollar Bill - Keep Looking Sideways, You're Too Hideous to Look at Face On
by Keiji Haino + SUMAC
- Type: Album
- Released: 23 February 2018
- Label: Thrill Jockey
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:06:56
- Community rating: 3.77/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: SUMAC
Album Notes & Community Reviews
An incredibly fierce, entirely improvised collaboration uniting the legendary Japanese noise pioneer Keiji Haino with the colossal weight of North American sludge metal trio SUMAC. Recorded live in a Tokyo studio across several hours, the sprawling record is a terrifyingly dense, completely unscripted collision of shrieking vocal feedback and monolithic, crawling guitar riffs. It stands as a profound, staggeringly heavy masterclass in avant-garde sonic endurance.
Genres
Descriptors: improvisation, noisy, avant-garde, dissonant, experimental, distorted
Tracklist
- American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To Look At Face On (19:53)
- What Have I Done? (I Was Reeling In Something White And I Became Able To Do Anything I Made A Hole Imprisoned Time Within It Created Friction Stopped Listening To Warnings Ceased Fixing My Errors Made The Impossible Possible? Turned Sadness Into Joy) Pt. 1 (9:01)
- I'm Over 137% A Love Junkie And Still It's Not Enough Pt. 1 (11:07)
- I'm Over 137% A Love Junkie And Still It's Not Enough Pt. 2 (15:41)
- What Have I Done? (I Was Reeling In Something White And I Became Able To Do Anything I Made A Hole Imprisoned Time Within It Created Friction Stopped Listening To Warnings Ceased Fixing My Errors Made The Impossible Possible? Turned Sadness Into Joy) Pt. 2 (11:12)
Credits
- Keiji Haino - primary artist, guitar, voice, flute, lyrics by, words by [titles]
- Sumac - primary artist
- Brian Cook - bass
- Faith Coloccia - design
- Aaron Turner - design, artwork, guitar
- Nick Yacyshyn - drums
- Carl Rowatti - lacquer cut by
- Kurt Ballou - mixed by
- James Plotkin - mixed by [additional mixing], edited by [track edits], mastered by
- Takeshi - photography by
- Yoshiaki Kondo - recorded by
- Alan Cummings - translated by [title translation]