Amidst the holiday tussle and bustle, you mighta missed some of the gems pouring forth from the Austin audioscape. So like yesterday’s wrapping paper, let’s try to square that away:
Wave Hands Like Clouds, "the collaborative efforts of Aaron Oberlin and Tyler Norton", has just popped out their third electronica/experimental full length LP and, like previous releases, this one veers amidst funky beats, 8-bit-wise melodies, bizarrely-splattered vox, strange chord patterns, and pads twisted into coolly-unrecognizable shapes. Escewing pop format, this release has just 2 (virtually-unnamed) tracks, "Side A" and "Side B"; each 16+ minutes worth of LP-devotion-declaring, smooth-moving, expertly-composed movements in courageous experimental form.
Right now, the only available (ownable) format is cassette tape. You can still stream it though, and at this point, what better way to wash away the by-now-tired Christmas standards than a traipse through the excellently-produced experimental forms hand-built by Oberlin and Norton?
-Scott Osborn