Gary War
Wed 12 Jan 2011
Future Arithmetic
While we’re on a buzz of Ariel Pink and his awesome album Before Today, here’s something of a similar ilk. Gary War toured with Ariel Pink six years ago, when he lived in Los Angeles; these days he resides in New York and is associated with Sacred Bones Records, who recently released his latest EP Police Water. During a recent interview with the New York Press War describes his music as a “modern attempt at doing psychedelic music in a pop format,” without resting on throwbacks and definitely not trying to recreate the past. His music has a twisted brilliance, delving deep into the murky parts of psychedelia and clouding it with pastels and fuzzy kaleidoscopic images. You get a sense of animals co-exiting in a secular society, growing fruit and veges together and living off the land. You could say it’s modern day hippy music, but now days reggae owns that tag. It’s thinking music, categorically mixed and developed in a certain way to draw out tones which touch on different parts of the imagination and it is near spiritual in creating its own language.
You can purchase Police Water from the Sacred Bones online store. The label describes the EP as “breaking new ground in prog and pop other-worlds… The overall feel of Police Water vibrates with post-apocalyptic urgency but ultimately carries the listener in through the darkness and out into light.” You can listen to two tracks (‘Born Of Light’ and ‘Sirens’) from the EP below. There’s also news of a split 7″ with Zola Jesus and a new full-length album on the way soon.
Posted by Nick Fulton under New York, U.S.A
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