SISSI/Chinesische Wäscherei Kollaboration: Bitte geht nicht nach Berlin!:

Und schon wieder die beste Band der Welt ! Mal sehen, ob es hier jemand mitbekommt...

It would be pretty misleading to call Sightings new– the NYC trio’s six albums deep into their post-Pussy Galore DNA shredding. But with the forthcoming Through The Panama, their strongest album so far, the boys are ready to leap beyond the noise scene to a larger audience (think Wolf Eyes, Lighting Bolt, or Pissed Jeans’ ascension, for instance). Their last dispatch, 2004′s Arrived In Gold, included plenty of muster (seek out “Internal Compass”), but with Panama, Sightings drop the junkyard-gazing tangents, putting the pedal to the metal with a murky, angular full-speed assault.

There are still detours, rattling-change loops, and disemboweled Whitehouse drifts, but from the mono-paranoia of opener “A Rest” to the under-sewage gurgle of “Cloven Hoofs” and slicing no wave groove of “Perforated,” the compacted swagger of guitar, bass, drums, and voice (with occasional piano) is at its thickest. Credit should go to Andrew W.K., who mixed/produced the 10 tracks. Before you start shouting about Party Hard (which rules by the way), remember Mr. W.K. was in an early NYC incarnation of Wolf Eyes and knows his ways around a feedback drift and ten-shard pile-up. Also recalling some old timey New York, Chavez/Oldham/Zwan (and occasional Cat Power) fret man Matt Sweeney adds guest guitar on a creepy, clanging (and then catchy) cover of the 1978 Walker Brothers track “The Electrician.”

Definitely a Band To Watch live, vocalist/guitarist Mark Morgan (ah, those Big Black intonations) is one of the most intelligently uncompromising front folks in the scene — right up there with Elisa Ambrogio, whose Magic Markers have also come (massively) into their own recently. Can we get some sorta post-punk noise duet, you two?

Through The Panama is out 10/23 on Load. Or, you can grab it as a double gatefold LP on Ecstatic Peace.

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To Live and Shave in L.A. (TLASILA) is an experimental music collective founded in 1993 by avant-garde composer/producer Tom Smith (formerly of Washington, DC groups Peach of Immortality and Pussy Galore and Miami Beach musician/producer Frank "Rat Bastard" Falestra. They were soon joined by oscillator player Ben Wolcott; this lineup created the majority of the releases in TLASILA's extensive discography. Their debut album, 30-minuten männercreme, was released in 1994. ... described the recording as "a wind tunnel of 30-weight vitriol." The "wildly inaccessible" ensemble has featured Don Fleming, Andrew W.K., Weasel Walter, Thurston Moore, and at least a dozen other musicians and sound artists. Their primary aesthetic assertion posits that genre is "obsolete". Although often categorized as purveyors of noise music, TLASILA have been noted to pursue an unorthodox approach, "construct(ing) songs around an overwhelming plethora of sonic detail, challenging the listener to engage with a surfeit of information,"deliberately blurring "the line between harsh metal-on-metal noise and abstract musique concrète."Smith's poetic texts "distance" the group "from any potential peers," "scanning like (they) came from some previously unearthed hermetic treatise." Its final album, The Cortège, will be coming out on Fan Death Records in 2011.