December 22, 2010

Brad Hammers – Post No Dreams

Brad Hammers - Post No Dreams

New solo album from Brad Hammers (Phlegm / Two Ton Sloth). Digital version is out right now or pre-order the CD (drops February 2011) and get the digi-release now. This is set to be the last official release from Token Recluse Recordings.

Over 3 & 1/2 years in the making, Brad Hamers second official solo effort is finally here! Post No Dreams is Brad’s most conceptually cohesive and accomplished work yet. Capturing what wasn’t taken to the zoo before it was freed, this album is a snapshot of the (in-fashion) chains we find ourselves in, a hole one can only dig themselves out of. Most songs were conceived out of an unshaven and wholly keyboard with its heavy heart caught in an amplifier, rotted and humming; and recorded onto a computer from the last ice age with buboes. Layered with shit drums and cassette fuzz, almost all of the album’s 13 tracks evolved out of old keyboard sketches and then grew new body parts and extra clothes from there. It is sooty and astral. It is lo-fi and fizzes. It is for the pensive and the head-sick. For the sleepless and the sleeping. For the myth-less and the mixed-up. The album features some accompanying instrumentation by Big Pauper (the other half of Two Ton Sloth), who also mixed and mastered the album in its entirety. And as with all of Brad’s work, this album is best listened to while alone and reading along with the lyrics. It comes highly recommended and is in fact the last official release from Token Recluse Recordings.

bradhamers.bandcamp.com

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