aTELECINE: Album Reviews
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The Falcon and The Pod
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FEATURED ON “BEST OF 2011″ LISTS
5 AGAINST 4 includes A Cassette Tape Culture (Phase 2) among 20 best albums of 2011, 12/31/11. – See the list here…
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BOOMKAT rates The Falcon and The Pod at #23 on Top 100 Albums of 2011, 12/27/11. – See the list here…
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14 TRACKS features best tracks of 2011, including aTelecine’s “A New Future!”, 12/13/11. – See the list here…
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REVIEWS
I OWN SOME RECORDS reviews The Falcon and The Pod, 4/16/12; “Musically this record is very weird. It touches upon so many different elements over the course of two sides it’s kind of mind boggling. This record is like a mixture of 60’s experimental synth records, Throbbing Gristle, Bauhaus, late 80’s early 90’s dance records, Cabaret Voltaire, Aphex Twin, The Residents, the first Devo album, and like a million other things. Also the entire thing is fucking evil sounding.” – Read it here…
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REGEN MAGAZINE reviews The Falcon and The Pod, 11/15/11; “With The Falcon and the Pod, the quartet’s feet already planted firmly in the soil of tonal chaos, aTelecine steadily progresses further into the realms of non-music. This isn’t the dance-heavy, guitar-driven, skirting the edge of the mainstream industrial that pervades the scene; this is something very other and will appeal to those others who prefer their music strange and out of this world.” – Read it here…
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BUY THIS RECORD reviews The Falcon and The Pod, 8/12/11. – Read it here…
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BOOMKAT reviews The Falcon and The Pod, 8/8/11; “Effectively they’re one of the most sonically intriguing and darkest elements to emerge from the DIY/Darkwave resurgence, and The Falcon and The Pod might just be their most impressive set of recordings yet. Highly recommended.” – Read it here…
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PLAYGROUND reviews “The Falcon and The Pod”, posts “4 AM”, 7/21/11 (Spanish text) – Read it here…
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FLAVORWIRE features aTelecine’s The Falcon and the Pod as one of its “10 Icy, Dark New Albums for Summer”, 07/05/11 – Read it here…”
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OLD SCHOOL reviews “The Falcon and The Pod”, posts 3 tracks off the album, 1/08/11 (Spanish Text) – Read it here…
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A Cassette Tape Culture
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REVIEWS
5 AGAINST 4 reviews A Cassette Tape Culture (Phase 2) and adds it to their “Best Albums of 2011″ 12/31/2011 – Read it here…
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WE HEART MUSIC reviews A Cassette Tape Culture (Phase Two) and A Cassette Tape Culture (Phase Three) , 07/07/11 – Read it here…
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (Italian) reviews A Cassette Tape Culture (Phase 1, 2, & 3) , 06/21/11 – Read it here…
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REGEN MAGAZINE reviews aTelecine’s A Cassette Tape Culture (Phase 1) , 06/20/11 – “An elegant and disturbing display of avant-garde experimental noise the likes of which haven’t been heard since the early days of industrial.” Read it here…
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Review from LANGOLO GITAROK, 05/13/11
“What kind of music this band plays, anyone can experience the clicking continue, where two previously recorded songs and a taste of the new disc can be heard.” – Read it here…
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Review from BOOMKAT, 05/10/11
“Their music is more lo-fi and freeform experimental, and that’s one of their finest qualities. This third batch of recordings crawls, creeps and floats from Badalamenti-esque ambience on ‘Carry’ and the brilliant ‘Blue Too (Lost Draft)’ through sneering junglism ‘Friday Night In A Small Town’ and one completely crucial twelve minute composition ‘Sky Then Trees Then Birds Then Nothing (Stand Mix)’, sounding like a Lynchian love scene scored by Leyland Kirby. Highly recommended listening.” – Listen here…
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Review from WHOA MAGAZINE, 05/09/11
“aTelecine has released two limited edition full length LPs and a 7”, the first time any of the band’s music has been made available on a digital format. Most recently the band released a teaser video for their upcoming release The Falcon and the Pod, their first LP to be released in July with Pendu Sound Recordings, a group well known for throwing dance parties and art shows throughout NYC.” – Read it here…
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Review from COMPLEX , 03/29/11
“Currently, Grey is working on cutting an album with her band, aTelecine. They play industrial a la Throbbing Gristle, or so I was told by another audience member.” – Read it here…
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Review from ARTINFO, 03/29/11
aTelecine is mentioned in this article from ArtInfo – Read it here…
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Review from MUNDO URBANO, 03/14/11
“Fans of Chris & Cosey, TG, David Tibet, Coil, Yellow Tears, Prurient or Cold Cave should grab this fast. A total find.”- Read it here…
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Review from FACT, 03/01/11
“A Cassette Tape Culture is aTelecine’s second major release, following ..And Six Dark Hours Pass on Dais Records, and their first on Pendu Sound, New York’s unabashed witch house ground zero and home also to the likes of Chelsea Wolfe and Mater Suspiria Vision.” – Read it here…
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Review from DEEP SHIT, 02/28/11
“Hot stuff going on there.” – Read it here…
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Review from soldout, 01/29/11
“aTelecine, adult film star Sasha Grey’s haunted ambient music project, is music to dream to if you’re fucked up. Which all the best people are.” – Read it here…
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THE QUIETUS, 01/20/11
aTelecine featured on The Quietus Mix 008 by Chris & Cosey. – Read it here…
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Review from Shut Your fucking Face and Listen, 01/12/11
“Snag a copy if you can find it… and save it until you’re enticed to ponder a frigid afternoon aluminum downpour in big cities of the future.” – Read it here…
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Review from Anglophonic, 01/11/11
“sound project on par with, and having street cred equal to, artists like Sunn O))), Throbbing Gristle, Neu! and Big Black. My first reaction was “holy shit,” and I think it still is. Hopefully there will be more to come.” – Read it here…
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Review from Boomkat, 01/06/11
“Obviously aware of their industrial precedents, aTelecine have eked out a curiously suggestive and embryonic sound with an acute potential to unsettle and demand your attention.” – Read it here…
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Review from Metalstorm, 1/04/2011
“Every since I’ve discovered aTelecine, my life is in ruins. I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, I lost my job, I haven’t seen my friends in months, I haven’t shaved in weeks, I haven’t seen sunlight in days…”
- Read it here…
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Review from Second Layer Records, 12/07/2010
“This LP is one of the surprises of the year. This is pretty unclassifiable and all the better for it.” – Read it here…
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A Cassette Tape Culture listed one of the “Top Five Favorite Records of the Week” on Seen All Over, 12/10
- Read it here…
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Review from Altered Zones, 11/05/2010
“There’s something inherently intriguing about an artist that crosses over to other mediums, and Sasha Grey fronted three-piece aTelecine is no exception. Collaborating with musician Pablo St. Francis and poet Anthony Djuan, Grey puts her industrial pedigree to work while citing totally legit influences like Throbbing Gristle, KMFDM, and Sisters of Mercy.” – Read it here…
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Review from Stereogum, 10/13/2010
“aTelecine creates dark, warping soundscapes that gurgle and drift and occasionally explode and that you might expect if you know about Grey’s interest in Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Sunn O))), black metal, NWW, Navicon Torture Technologies, C93, Lustmord, Einstürzende Neubauten, Earth, etc. Sometimes it’s quiet, other times it hits the red.” – Read it here…
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Review from Pop Matters, 07/07/2010
“The music of her band aTelecine forebodes a civilization gone awry; it is industrial noise, the sounds of the Terminator stomping through Eliot’s Wasteland.” – Read it here…
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THE DRONE streams “Carry” and posts teaser from upcoming LP, 03/5/11 (French text)
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FACT MAGAZINE review, 3/1/11
“Sasha Grey and St Francis have created what is for the most part an ambient tapestry – looping, tweaking and re-arranging fragments of vocals, electronics and listless guitar strums into engrossing tone-poems which allude to the exploratory heyday of ’80s industrial.” – Read it here…
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Review from EVERYTHING BUT URBAN, 05/18/11
“There is a sense that everything is provisional, merely one possible version, arbitrarily selected. But of course this is far from arbitrary: this is creative, sonically inventive, and for all its distancing and difficulty, musical experimentalism of the first order.”- Read it here…
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