{"id":534,"date":"2013-06-24T12:28:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T12:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephanrath.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2013-06-24T15:15:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T15:15:26","slug":"queens-end-times-dial-kompakt-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stephanrath.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"QUEENS – End Times (Dial\/ Kompakt) Out Now !"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is beauty an inherently melancholic thing? Do certain frequencies trigger certain memories? Can longing comfort you? Can distance act as a mediator for intimacy?
\nQuestions prompted by \u201cEnd Times\u201d, Scott \u201cQueens\u201d Mou\u2019s latest full length.\"dialCD27_Queens_Cover\"<\/a>
\nBecause \u201cEnd Times\u201d is, on the one hand, something of a conundrum. The way its songs are constructed out of opposites \u2013 light\/darkness, movement\/stillness, life\/death \u2013 is remarkable, puzzling. The fact that whenever you listen to it lost loves and lost times begins to act and react in front of you \u2013 naked skin, summer nights, vacant eyes, falling rain, fateful tarmac \u2013 is an almost magical fact. And the taste it leaves you with \u2013 a taste of both ecstasy and sorrow \u2013 is intoxicatingly unexplainable.
\nSuffice to say, \u201cEnd Times\u201d is a remarkable record. If you\u2019d like you could put on your music journalist hat and call it an original amalgamation of past works; if you can somehow imagine a mixture between John Fahey\u2019s \u201cThe Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death\u201d and \u201cWomblife\u201d and Deathprod\u2019s \u201cTreetop Drive\u201d you\u2019d kind of get its gist.\"Queens<\/a>
\nSure, Scott has made albums similar to \u201cEnd Times\u201d before. As Jane \u2013 a project he had together with Noah \u201cPanda Bear\u201d Lennox \u2013 he for instance realized a handful of releases between the years 2002 and 2005. One of these \u2013 2005\u2019s \u201cBerserker\u201d \u2013 was brought out in both LP and CD format by the mighty Paw Tracks label, but most were CD-Rs\/objets d\u2019art sold only at Other Music, the record store where Scott and Noah used to work.
\nIn Jane, Scott and Noah paid homage to and expanded upon the rhythms and soundscapes created by the techno vanguard. The lion\u2019s share of their material was recorded in Scott\u2019s apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on cheap equipment \u2013 an approach that added extra layers of sincerity and spontaneity to their slow burning dance lullabies.
\nThis approach \u2013 this self-made creativity \u2013 is also evident on \u201cEnd Times\u201d. Whenever \u201cBerserker\u201d flows out of your speakers you feel like you\u2019re right there with Scott and Noah; that guitars, drums and vocals are being laid down in front of you, in real time. But \u201cEnd Times\u201d is even more direct; whenever it flows out of your speakers you\u2019re in Scott\u2019s head.
\nA wonderful place to be. A place that gives you all the answers you need.<\/p>\n

(Johan Jacobsson 2013)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is beauty an inherently melancholic thing? Do certain frequencies trigger certain memories? Can longing comfort you? Can distance act as a mediator for intimacy? Questions prompted by \u201cEnd Times\u201d, Scott \u201cQueens\u201d Mou\u2019s latest full length. Because \u201cEnd Times\u201d is, on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanrath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanrath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanrath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanrath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanrath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanrath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanrath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanrath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanrath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephanrath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}