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Alex Delivery
Star Destroyer Jagjaguwar

Article written by Ged M - Apr 29, 2007

Alex Delivery is a New York arty five-piece band with a strong WTF? factor. Your scale for comparisons is continually being upended; sometimes it�s Can or Faust, sometimes you think you hear Giorgio Moroder electro-pop, and sometimes it just sounds like Bright Eyes in a bacon slicer. Each track is clearly a song, with firm structure and melody, but those elements are often subliminal, felt as much as heard, beneath layers of industrial-organic sound, which is sometimes white noise, sometimes tinkles and chimes. Opening track �Komad� is a good example, consisting of different elements soldered together: it starts with small glitchy sounds like insects talking, mutates into unsettling and dissonant string effects repeating themselves and then bursts into an industrial disco rhythm that sounds like a techno Tubeway Army. That endless metronomy is a feature of the album�s six tracks; �Milan� starts dreamily and disappears into driving beats while �Sheath Wet� is an all-encompassing 11 minute Krautrock rhythm, although they also manage to sweeten the mix with a carnival tune and some mutated folk rock. It�s arty and experimental but much more satisfying than it might first appear.

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