Rayon Beach - This Looks Serious

Rayon Beach - This Looks SeriousThe swirling cloud of deranged noise emanating from the highly radioactive inner core of RAYON BEACH has once again reared its head up, bucking wildly and shattering the iridescent thunder of the heavens into shards of wonderfully damaged sound. After the inescapable fallout from their debut Memory Teeth 12 inch EP in 2010, they have rightfully emerged with their first proper full length LP, dragging the trembling scraps of electronic punk slime

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Band leader Mal Robinson also made acoustic two-track recordings in his basement: new songs

Germany and travelled to Melbourne to work with RVG

Opener “Midnight” and “Understory” see Chesley weave sparse layers of cello into vaporous ambient atmospheres bristling with intensity

It was released as a double LP that collected all their single & EPs output plus other material recorded during the band's short life-span

Neglected for decades by all but the most devoted collectors of Afro music

As the hand-typed record label shows

Slint's sound is descended from punk

I was a big hip-hop fan all my life

but Donuts would prove to transcend the rigid definitions of what a hip-hop album could be

It marks a transference of styles from psychedelic pop

It was never intended to get this far