Articles
2010 Top 10s and 20s
Will Long (Celer)

Albums
Bilxaboy
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Celer & Yui Onodera
Cepia
Dead Leaf Echo
Ferraris & Uggeri
Ernesto Ferreyra
Flying Horseman
The Foreign Exchange
Les Fragments de la Nuit
Ghost and Tape
Andrew Hargreaves
Head Of Wantastiquet
i8u
Anders Ilar
Quintana Jacobsma
Kaiserdisco
Leafcutter John
Clem Leek
The Lickets
The Machine
Magda
My Fun
Ostendorf, Zoubek, Lauzier
Part Timer
Phillips + Hara
RV Paintings
Set In Sand
Shackleton
Shigeto
Matt Shoemaker
Sun City Girls
Supersilent
Swartz
Ben Swire
Collin Thomas
Tomo
Upward Arrows

Compilations / Mixes
Exp. Dance Breaks 36
Fünf
Lee Jones
The Moon Comes Closer
Note of Seconds
Tensnake

EPs
8Bitch
Celer
Jasper TX
Jozif
Lerosa
Machinefabriek
Patscan
Pleq
Simon Scott
SHEMALE
Thorsten Soltau / Weiss
Jace Syntax & BlackJack
Weiss

Head Of Wantastiquet: Dead Seas
Conspiracy Records

Under the Head Of Wantastiquet alias, Belgium-based American musician Paul Labrecque (Sunburned Hand Of the Man) presents eleven backwoods ruminations, most of them laid-back and slow though variations in volume and disposition bring contrast to the material. Some tracks are careening space drones ideal for inducing entrancement, others bucolic folk instrumentals designed to brighten the spirit. Throughout the forty-six-minute album, banjos, strings, and electric guitars give voice to psychedelic-folk mantras that are equally, yes, sunburned and neo-primitive.

The hypnotic opener “Return to Agharti” entrances with a relaxed blend of pedal-point drone, banjo plucks, and rustic bowed tones, a style that re-emerges in “Victorious Eyes” this time joined by vocals. On the acoustic side of things, we get “Goodbye Biloxi,” a gentle backporch etude for banjo and acoustic guitar , and “11:11,” where acoustic guitar patterns cycle and flutter against a scratchy drone of bowed strings. Dominated as it is by rapid finger-picking and a hushed vocal mumur, “A Curse Repeated” could easily be mistaken for a Benoit Pioulard song. The electric side includes “Mavi Marmara,” a meditative drone of rippling guitar waves, and “All High Souls,” whose smoldering electric guitars sing a plaintive song. During the album's loudest track, “On Earth As it is in Heaven,” bluesy riffs and shadings build dramatically into a near-howl

December 2010