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Bowery Electric

Bowery Electric - 2023 Reissue

    Reissue of debut album from 1995, now including their 1994 Drop EP.
    First time available on vinyl in nearly two decades.
    On Pitchfork’s Best Shoegaze Albums Of All Time list.
    Included in Andrew Earles’s Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996.

    This new double LP version restores the track “Deep Sky Objects” to the original running order of the album as it was left off of the original single LP version due to side length restraints. This is the first time this album has been available on vinyl in almost two decades, and the first time the Drop EP has been available in any format since original release in 1994.

    At the same time, Kranky is making the CD version available once again for the first time in many years, with the Drop EP tracks also included.

    The debut album from New York City’s Bowery Electric was released by Kranky in late summer 1995 after they came to the label’s attention via their self-released 2x7-inch Drop EP from the year previous. The first in a trio of albums released by the core duo of Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener finds them in their most raw form.

    “The perfect realization of their aesthetic, each word and chord tuned and focused for maximum impact.” — Pitchfork

    “Genuinely hypnotic.” —The Wire 


    TRACK LISTING

    Side A:
    1. Sounds In Motion.
    2. Next To Nothing.
    3. Long Way Down.
    4. Another Road
    Side B:
    1. Over And Over
    2. Deep Sky Objects
    3. Slow Thrills
    Side C:
    1. Out Of Phase
    2. Drift Away
    Side D (Drop EP):
    1. Drop
    2. Let Me Down
    3. Head On Fire
    4. Only Sometimes

    Bowery Electric

    Beat - 2022 Reissue

      The second album from New York City's Bowery Electric was released in late 1996, less than 15 months after their self-titled debut, but it found them having traveled light years musically in the interim, the group having seemingly decided to see how far they could take the guitar/ bass / drums / vocal setup into the atmosphere.

      Every aspect of their approach had been refined and focused: squalling, distorted guitars had been transformed into hazy, sensual sheets; the live drums transmuted to sampled rhythms more in debt to the blossoming downtempo sound of the day; bass lines reduced to their most basic diagrams; vocals submerged to become one with the narcotized fog of the instruments; even the lyrics were reduced to a few minimal lines used sparingly so as not to overshadow the dynamic.

      Beat is a lush and dense mantra of shadowy percussion, barely-there vocals and immersive drones that envelops the listener in an opiated blanket of sound. Includes the bonus track "Low Density," not featured on the original U.S. release.

      "Bowery Electric have made something utterly astonishing here. So deep, so wide, and somehow as intimate as a train crash. The first six tracks are just the most crushingly beautiful thing I've heard in 1997; the last five are even better. Good god, THIS IS IT." Melody Maker.

      "While cymbals shower down over the songs like a torrent of shattered glass, their austere beauty is never static. Ambience has rarely sounded so messy." Exclaim.

      A near-perfect mix of shifting dance beats, menacing electronic drones, analogue bleeps,
      syncopated rhythms and ethereal vocals." Now UK.



      TRACK LISTING

      Side A:
      1. Beat
      2. Empty Words
      3. Without Stopping
      Side B:
      1. Under The Sun
      2. Fear Of Flying
      3. Looped
      4. Black Light
      Side C:
      1. Inside Out
      2. Coming Down
      3. Postscript
      4. Low Density*
      Side D:
      1. Postscript

      *bonus Track Not On Original U.S. Release


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