DUSTCOVERED
CARPET / LIGER - split
(12”,
beatismurder)
I realized too late that the release of “A cloud,
pushed and squeezed” by Dust Covered Carpet is due only in the beginning
of February next year and now the review is out and there is not a lot I can
do about it. Except say that I am sorry for the missing professionalism
(which I am somehow also proud of in regards to music journalism…) and
hint at this split release with Liger strongly, which features “Uncover its
roots” by Dust Covered Carpet as a sort of ors d’houevre for the album
release.
All you need to know about Dust Covered Carpet
currently you may read in the review of aforementioned album, but on top of
that “Waves may come” the other track by DCC on this release is a fine
song as any of theirs, but with a flute on top. There is a lot of great
arrangement that has gone ino this song, and it actually leaves the Connor
Oberst school of songwriting for a masterclass with some English legend,
whose name is not yet to be mentioned because the contractual work is not
yet done. But it is very promising and opens up a lot of great visions and
ideas for the future, and actually that is all that is important.
To round up side on of this split release Yeah Pretty
Boy takes it up to remix “Waves may come”. Now, Yeah Pretty Boy is
no-one else but Dino Spiluttini, who runs not only Beat is murder records
but is also one half of Liger, which is the other half of this split
release. Yeah, label incest has always worked out finely. His mix puts the
melancholy and the emotional disturbance of coming of age into the
foreground. Sleek, subtle electronic beats and basic keyboard chords
undermine the pop-tendencies and give them a pathos and grandeur that is
more found in smoke-filled, underground cafes with a singer struggling away
in some corner, than the comfortable warmth of somebodies living room
crowded with friends.
The loneliness of the individual soul longing for
warmth and love in the cold of the modern urban dystopia of WLAN-cafes and
late night coding, friends you never meet and virtual connections is a main
focus of Liger’s music. They like to expand that idea of broken souls and
the yawning desire to break them into excess. Yes, it hurts and they want to
show that. In their first track the singer states “I shiver like I’ll
die” or in the second song he closes with “Shattered bodys, sweaty palms
/ I think I love you”. And that is the epitome of positive thinking they
can get themselves up to.
No easy ways out, no easy relationships, only extremes.
“You are made of win and gold”, the first track of Liger on this split
release, culminates in a Depeche Mode like synthie beat, but keeps the
acoustic guitar. They do a lot of late night strumming to write songs, too,
I guess. Their side is also rounded up by a remix: “Split Yourself
Lilith” is reworked by Tokyotron aka Trouble Over Tokyo, who are also on
the roster of Beatismurder Records. What did I tell you about incest? TOT
put nice and easy IDM beats and some harsher keyboards underneath or over
the harmonies of Liger and add something interestingly sticky and
fascinating to the track, but it is hard to say how this fits so well when
it seems so contradictory.
This vinyl 12” comes in a nicely printed cover that
seemed to take away the whole storyline of the movie “2012” – a
burning house about to be consumed by a giant wave. If you want to see the
full thing, please click on the cover above.
