Posts Tagged ‘ Sean McCann ’

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Sincere World, which was due out almost a year ago as I understand it, has finally been released for the world to enjoy.
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Sean McCann begins Open Resolve by literally fiddling around.
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Lost transmissions, broken records, four-track manifestos and the ambience of almost: there’s recently been a resurgence of the William Basinski strain of drone music that concerns itself with textural degeneration, with the beauty of deterioration and (oh yes) the refinement of the...
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Sean McCann is one of those unforgettable artists who blow me away time and time again. 
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So, many of us know who Sean McCann is by this point (if you don’t, he’s this dude who makes consistently amazing ambient albums at an all-too-ridiculous rate).  And many of us also know that he runs an excellent little record label called Roll Over Rover out of California with a couple of his...
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The summing up of a full year of any enterprise is difficult to do.  Annual reports from businesses are often an exercise in self-congratulation; to me critics’ year-end lists are ubiquitous, and I have found the act of writing one to be similar to the act of holding running water in the hand–it is...
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Best Album Zs, “New Slaves” (The Social Registry) I have tried on several occasions to elucidate the raw, animal genius swimming about in the junk-bustling industrial waves of New Slaves, but words fail this album.  This is one of those rare records that transcends the individuals who created it (as talented and insane as...
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2010 was a great year for music!  Let’s see if 2011 can beat it.  Here are some of my favorite moments: 10. Sparkling Wide Pressure, “Facing the Nothing World” CDr SWP’s introspective masterpiece about the human condition hoses you down like a cold shower.
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This shining gem of a cassette comes courtesy of Sean McCann’s Roll Over Rover label, and it’s a blitzkrieg of ambient bliss.
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As you probably already know, Sean McCann is one of the few drone artists that is considered essential.
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