Zammuto

We had some discussion of this on the Books thread. But now that Zammuto is touring/releasing stuff under his own name I think it's time we made a seperate thread. His 2012 album is probably my favorite thing to come out last year - more musical and catchy than the Books, with about half the samples (I guess Paul kept the other half?) The production on this thing is neat and really quite bizarre; the drum sounds all sound like they have a little bit clipped off the end, so they have no reverb or crash. Lots of neato electronic effects. Even some auto-tune and generated vocals. A song called "Zebra Butt". Bits and pieces of the man progging out on "Groan Man" and "FU C-3P0". I don't really know how to classify it but it really is a great album. Apparently the live show is awesome as well. Your thoughts??

https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/zammuto-sinker

live show was great; i'm a big fan. Think this made my fave album list of last year.

so good

How does this thread have four posts and still looks like an unanswered thread on the front page?

we're all mods

everything is unanswered when you're a mod

Shouldn't this also be happening on The Who thread then?

it is a mystery

oh yeah, I'm preordering this

Outlaw thread.

some cool stuff here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zammuto-lp-2

wow, that got hit pretty fast

the prices seem reasonable!

first single/video is pretty awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4hbMkcatAY

full album stream:
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/24/341670800/first-listen-zammuto-anchor

only listened to the first half so far, but this is pretty good, I bet it would sound rad on a great system

This sounds great so far, I was in need for a Books fix.

The first Zammuto album was too patchy but this kind of sounds like "Lost and Safe pt. 2", I was initially disinterested but from a first impression this might become one of the best records I've heard this year.

'henry lee (trad.)' is fantastic

Had a listen on a good soundsystem, and this record is great, definitely AOTY material in my opinion. Although the tunes are pretty catchy there are a lot of neat things going on behind the scenes and it messes with your brain in some very subtle ways. It's proggy in a Max Tundra sort of way; not quite that wild but there's that level of detail.

figured I'd post this up:

http://thequietus.com/articles/16152-zammuto-anchor-review

Kinda baffled by the P-fork review

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19766-zammuto-anchor/

yeah literally half of it is spent talking about the breakup of The Books, then the other half has sentences like this:

The frozen, wintry album art is the inverse of Zammuto’s verdant-spring look, and what’s inside is similarly chilly, a downcast collection of tunes that counts as Zammuto’s most low-key work since the Books’ underrated 2005 LP Lost and Safe.

which to my ears doesn't really describe this at all - the last 3 tracks (not counting "Codebreaker") are rather chilly but I found a lot of this album to be accessible and fun. or this:

The record marks a specific shift in Zammuto’s sound—more straightforward, less nervy, a Rube Goldberg device replaced with a single manual lever

I don't see how you can say this if you're paying much attention, the songs may be a little more poppier than what he's done in the past but there's more sonic oddness and goofball song structuring than on any of his previous LPs. Then to say "Need Some Sun" is an example of his (more intricate?) earlier sound when it's the most straightforward tune on here.

I agree it's baffling. If they'd have given it the same reviewer that did their first LP I wonder what he would've rated it.

He just released a new EP. I'm just gonna c/p the whole description here. It's really excellent. (not that I expected anything less)

“My Dog’s Eyes” is based on an outdated list of children’s favorite things. Zammuto took each image, found its rhythmic heartbeat and intrinsic melody, and put them in order of increasing tempo as a structural basis for the track. He then composed additional instrumentation around this structure, in the process revealing the natural cadence and harmony within each phrase.

On “You Can Feel So Good,” Zammuto built a tuned array of PVC pipes and a device that holds a small speaker in the optimal position for re-recording sounds though them (pictured on the Veryone's cover). Using Zammuto’s well- documented, innovative record-scratching process, unique vinyl rhythms were pushed through the pipes to create the rhythmic and melodic structures of the track. He coupled this with a beautiful voice from a vintage meditation tape from the 1970s, chopped and tuned to match the pipe resonances. A portion of this track originally appeared in the 'New Now' episode of Adult Swim's show Off The Air.

For the final track, “Smolt,” Zammuto guitarist, Nick Oddy, donated an old Epiphone SG electric guitar, of which Nick Zammuto removed the frets. By tuning, pitching and delaying improvisations on the fretless guitar, Zammuto sequenced a number of interlocking melodies and rhythms. An old choral tape sample, which happened to be in the same key as the guitar, became the counterpoint. To complete the piece, a lot of 'noise' from recordings of rain and fire were adapted as a kind of “smoldering” backdrop.

https://zammuto.bandcamp.com/album/veryone

coolio

Is this thread pretending to be brand new for anyone else?

it does for me. I have no clue why.