Sixtoo - Chewing on Glass & Other Miracle
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Artist: SixtooEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-05-18
Music Label: Ninja Tune
Soundtracks:
- Boxcutter Emporium, Pt. 1
- Chewing on Glass
- Sidewinders
- Karmic Retribution
- Funny Sticks Reprise
- Boxcutter Emporium, Pt. 2
- Boxcutter Emporium, Pt. 3
- Old Days Architecture
- Chainsaw Buffet
- Snake Bite
- Transient Control
- Chainsaw Breakfast
- Horse Drawn Carriage
- Chainsaw Juggler
- The Honesty of Constant Human Error
- Storm Clouds & Silver Linings
- Closing Day Sale
Free Music Notes for Chewing on Glass & Other Miracle
Free Music Review: Rated a Sixtoo
Hit: 5 Stars
At the end of "Chewing on Glass and Other Miracle Cures" you may not have the slightest clue what you just heard, but you will like it. Rob "Sixtoo" Squires explores new musical territory in this glitch-filled, twitchy electronic/rock/hip-hop/ambient amalgation, which strays down paths that few musicians even think to tread.
It opens with an insistent buzz, like a saw. The buzz gives way to chimes and blips, as a subtle little melody starts to rise from the depths of "Boxcutter Emporium Part 1." You don't get part two until halfway through the album: a solid, complex percussive melody overlaid with plenty of odd sounds, and then part three, a surprisingly gentle, slow song that only crackles occasionally.
The remaining songs are just as entrancing: a mass of faintly gothic tunes, dark rock songs touched with ambience, and some distorted electronica. The feeling is only enhanced by the sounds Sixtoo inserts into it -- stretches of slow electronic waves, rattlesnakes, churning waves of sound, loud buzzes and half-distorted voices. It sounds chaotic, but it somehow whips itself into a glorious stormy web of sound.
If you grabbed DJ Shadow, crammed him into a closet with a few of the ambient Canadian indierocksters, and added a bit of hip-hop grit then you would have something like Sixtoo's sound. Sixtoo admits from the start that this is a departure for him; he wanted live instrumentation for this album, and he got a Rhodes piano for his 29th birthday. (The liner notes tell a little anecdote about every song)
Apparently the Rhodes piano (and a Sea and Cake show) did wonderful things for him. But despite the otherworldly sound of this album, almost no computer effects were used -- instead, Sixtoo relies on the eerie sounds generated by his Rhodes, which most of the original melodies were played on. His playing is all it needs to be -- weird, alien, and dark.
The recorded drumbeats are absolutely stunning, as is the churning bass. Sixtoo gets the sounds he wants by being creative, as evidenced by how he got the "strings" effect in one song. Damo Suzuki of Can makes an appearance in the penultimate song, "Storm Clouds and Silver Linings," sounding like he's drowning in a sea of thick Rhodes noise.
"Chewing on Glass and Other Miracle Cures" sounds lonely, chilly, dark and utterly entrancing, like being trapped in a psychedelic noir movie.
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