Excepter- Alternation

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and the whole "first full-length album" claim is kinda goofy, since most of their releases have been album-length already.

About the record-- it probably helps if you're verrrrry stoned, but that is besides the point: much of it is more forward about its dance influences than Throne or Sunbomber, but not in the same way as KA or Self-Destruction. Some tracks are rocking house beats, some more electro... and there's a real island vibe to the whole thing, particularly because of secondary percussion elements (congas, claves, other handheld idiophones). One could argue that it is more straightforward (and I wouldn't necessarily disagree), but the layers of complex hallucinatory sound (synths, weird whistles, vocal strainings, etc) are still there-- it's just that the beats are more defined/ less stop & go than previous efforts. If you liked the sets they played on this past tour, then I don't understand how you couldn't dig this. More about specific tracks later, when not working.

any opinions on debt dept.? i know a couple of excepter guys post here so i hope this isn't bad form, but i think it's great. i love "shots ring", it reminds me of "what a day" as it's one of those songs that seems like it's 15 minutes long but then when you look at the led display on the cd player only like 4 minutes has passed. and a fucking great opening line. would i be right in thinking this is their most explicitly cabs sounding record?

i think it's pretty good. i've only listened to it once though, so i'm hard pressed to say anything beyond that, yet. i'll get to it today or tomorrow, i need to check it out again.