Guvenc/McLennan - terrible rooms
Released: March 15 The latest combined effort from multi-instrumentalists Matt Robert McLennan and Deniz Guvenc is supremely chilled out improvised jazz album that is heavy on ambient atmosphere while maintaining a loose feel with plenty of flourish. It’s not particularly smooth, even with its washed out vibe it still has a little bit of edge to it, particularly in the guitar tones. Our opening track, “kapiti plain, bleachrace,” has the closest thing to a hook wee hear as a guitar softly strums out a gentle rhythm in a thin and atmospheric tone. It blends quite well with the surrounding ambience as soft synths and and accompanying guitar imprinted gently in the background. We get into some of the noisier stuff here as well with “trash anchored, silver poisoning.” It’s nothing that gets really aggressive but casts a few dark shadows over the otherwise liked a loose album. IT opens up with a soft wall of distortion and dives headlong into long bits of feedback and distorted d...
