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CMU Approved
Approved: CSLSX
By Aly Barchi | Published on Wednesday 21 March 2012
Fortunately for Philadelphia production collective CSLSX, the calibre of their select studio output this year just about compensates for the utter unutterability of that stage moniker (NB: It’s shorthand for Casual Sex). Thought to be taken from a tbc debut album, new track ‘Violent Sea’ – part of an ongoing alliance with Swedish pop stoics I Break Horses – is clear and quiescent from the first, its complexity only telling in later listens. Have several now:
Far more likely to prove divisive is ‘Aeromancer’, a high-spec reinvention of Americana folk triplet Mountain Man’s ‘Honeybee’, and, by ancient Greek definition, an agent of mystic divination via air and atmosphere. Braced with a novel spaciousness lent by infinite synths and a lusty rhythmic pace, it transcends the Mississippi prairie to hang in starry skies, sounding as extra terrestrial as Mountain Man’s original is so much a thing of the earth.
View the official ‘Aeromancer’ video here: