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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Tonight Tonight in Music: Silk Flowers, Triumph of Lethargy, Flexions

Posted by on Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:00 AM

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Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, Silk Flowers, Flexions

(Cairo) Silk Flowers are a New York—based band signed to No Age member Dean Spunt's Post Present Medium label. The trio use extremely lo-fi-sounding synths, drum machines, and samples to create moody, muddy, and often cheap synth pop with light industrial touches. "Costume" and "Flash of Light" have the kind of alternately icy-sharp and gaseous synths you'd hear in early Depeche Mode or Human League or those few Joy Division tracks into which Martin Hannett snuck some keyboards. "Flash of Light" also displays the band's most common vocal mode, a gothic baritone moan that apes and exaggerates Ian Curtis at his lowest. It's murky stuff, but an occasional groove or melody does emerge from it. Two of these guys used to be in Soiled Mattress and the Springs, if that means anything to you. ERIC GRANDY

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