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| | Hangedup - Clatter for Control |
 | | Right now, I can't think of any music better suited to reminding me of the precariousness of all this, of my delusions of warmth and safety, the ambiguous symbiosis of nature and technological humanity, etc. than Hangedup (not to mention the fact that my toes are freezing and the thermostat needs turning up). |
 | | And therein lies the problem - if "problem" it be deemed - that Hangedup's music has the unerring tendency to focus at great length on the static and inert, giving the sound of the still a sort of non-motion. |
 | | It may work best as a document of sound-paintings to be played only in the dead of winter and accorded a hushed kind of respect, but oddly, it's these aforementioned contradictions, coupled with the wholly subjective beauty of it all, that make Hangedup such a fascinating proposition, and their third album a triumph. |
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