ARV & MILJÖ - Jorden Först LP Ethiopian

ARV & MILJÖ - Jorden Först LP EthiopianAn emotionally charged and bizarrely evocative look at radical environmental advocacy groups, mainly Earth First! and Earth Liberation Front, channeled through the memories of the Swedish Plogbill movement and their actions throughout the early 90's. Monologue, snippets of interview segments, protest songs and site recordings are mixed up with the rather raw kosmische synth music Arv & Milj has explored during the last couple of years. The result is a

Perhaps the members of Pop Unknown have stumbled upon a harmony which is often unbalanced by the allure to be all that is "pop" or all that is "emotion

There's something frantic and desperate about the tone of songs like ‘Tonight

or some of those German things from the 70s that we love

Silver / White Vinyl

The band’s sound has diversified over their career to include elements of traditional heavy metal

All-in-all eleven tracks of radical

It's generally just him

the six-piece band’s sonic atrocity left clubs and house shows around Memphis on life support

submerging Oliveros' trills and drones beneath layers of dirt and grit

and Lawrence never lost focus

bearing his most personal

which was teeming with electronic keyboards and otherworldly sound generators