LOU REED - Words And Music, May 1965 LP Spoken Word Montevale build songs for piano

Montevale build songs for piano

and three mini-DVs

The texture of the space is only revealed by the sounds produced in it

The classic Melvins heavy grind is set up and broken up by assorted odd sidetracks: “Revulsion / We Reach” flows forward slower and slower until it eventually melts into a gooey feedback drone

as though they’ve emerged from the same troubled dreams

LOU REED - Words And Music, May 1965 LP Spoken Word Montevale build songs for piano"A tape of their earliest demos, recorded on May 11, 1965, and kept under wraps until now, reveals traces of things rarely associated with The Velvet Underground: blues and folk, earthy and traditional, uncertain and tentativeyet imbued with that rusty, corrosive Lou Reed spirit. It's a revelation." Will Hodgkinson, MOJO. Light in the Attic Records is proud to present, in collaboration with Laurie Anderson, the first release in their ongoing Lou Reed