Tirelessly active without ever falling back on default settings, Moth Cock push themselves to new places with every release. Vibrating cells of saxophone, clarinet drone and electronic blur have taken shaped both aggressive and reflective on the band's tapes over the past decade. On Mystics and Statistics, two side-long excursions from the Kent, Ohio duo find them locking in to an particularly meditative take on their often busier insect swarm electroacoustic noise. Occasional explosions of disorientation and head-rush wooziness always return back into the murk, like walking through a flooded house trying to find the exit as a cloud of angry bees approaches from the outside.
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released February 28, 2020
Recorded at Home Spring 2019
Pat Modugno - Trumpet
Doug Gent - Saxophone
Mastered by John Elliott
Art by Matthew Gallagher
Layout by Noah Depew
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This is a phenomenally good album & I urge you to stop whatever you're doing, buy a copy and bury yr head between the speakers. Matthew's classic American primitive guitar is ENVELOPED by Jen's hammered dulcimer & Jayson's smattering percussion, like some bastard offspring of Robbie Basho & the Velvets at their most unhinged. Ecstatic, vital stuff. North Country Primitive
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What more to say that this album is of an incredible sensory expertise, a jubilation with each note, a conversation with the excellence of jazz david mooname
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