NEW BERLIN - basic function LP Shoegaze prepared piano

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deep dub basslines and jarring cuts of silence

With a wall of sounds that is inescapable

It’s also really easy to tell that these guys love their noise and dissonance with noise on just about every track as well as with a noise only track “French Kissing Alexander Hamilton” that gets a heavily distorted beat going with glitches and swells thrown in to berate your ears

or perhaps that of Crash Course in Science

NEW BERLIN - basic function LP Shoegaze prepared pianoThe moment you realize this album could have easily been a complete killed by death sampler or some non existent CRISIS, WIRE, WARSAW demo hybrid recording from 1977 NEW BERLIN started out as a one man project in TEXAS. Indeed, the 13 track, 24 minute affair is the stuff that 80s indie dance nights are made of. The McAllen based trio founded by Michael Flanagan, Gustavo Martinez, and Andrew Richardson cut a rug with ringing guitars, frantic bass