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File under: Art-Rock

Voice Imitator

Of How Hits (LP)

Label12XU

FormatLP

GenreExperimental

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In attempting to write this dispatch on the second Voice Imitator album my instinct is to pitch them as somewhat of an antidote to the current ills of what could be described as the post-Noise Rock landscape. I’m trying not to tread too far down the path of negativity and slander, so let's just say that while on paper they share basic characteristics with popular groups in the pigfuck to frat rock pipeline, Voice Imitator possess a tact and vision scantly seen in Repetition Orientated Rock. 

On ‘Of How Hits’ the members decades long individual and collaborative experiences in punk/rock, the avant-garde and electronic music, are further honed to form an internal logic that doesn’t merely cut and paste from these experiences, but creates a distinctive and singular group sensibility. Self conscious subcultural baggage is removed from past youth music experiences, only the molten core remains.

With each listen the distinction between traditional band and synthesized modes becomes harder to distinguish, like a zoomed in Killing Joke welding itself to Robert Hood’s technominimalism. Lyrics reflect the surreal banailty and horrors of modern existence, like a co- worker recapping their interstate trip away to the Banksy exhibition. The album ender, ‘On Cloud Nine As One Of Three Percent’ can only be compared to Lou Reed and Metallica’s ‘Junior Dad’. In short, affecting contemporary music. - Nic Warnock (Repressed Records / R.I.P Society) 

Details
File under: Art-Rock
Cat. number: 12XU 161-1
Year: 2024
Tracklist
A1Ferdinand's Nightshade
A2Smartphone Photograph From The Passenger Seat
A3Browsing Similar Products
A4Civic Nite Work
B1Sportcoupe
B2Of How Hits
B3On Cloud Nine As One Of Three Percent
Credits
Leon O'Regan
Bass
Per Byström
Drums
Jason Fuller
Engineer
Justin Fuller
Guitar
Anna McEwan
Layout
Mikey Young
Mastered By
Xavier Irvine
Mixed By
Ali McCann
Photography By
Scott O'Hara
Photography By
Mark Groves
Vocals