Alligator by Accelera Deck

new 15 song single - Alligator!

"...I usually start each new recording with a rough outline, or concept. Maybe just a single word..., with Alligator I decided to treat the beats as textures and explore all the permutations in a similar spirit as how I think Seefeel or Basic Channel/ Rhythm & Sound would"- c.jeely

Alligator is a dense and claustrophobic recording that spans nearly 2 hours. Although intended to be listened to in "sections" or 1 long song at a time.... some opt instead to listen for the full 2 hours.

Regardless how much or how little you listen, it is clear that throughout Alligator, Jeely sculpts his guitar to chime, ring, and wash its way over the looped beat. The guitar sounds eerily like an organ, a choir, or a tsunami. The beat receives similar sculpting/time shifting, much like a dub producer creating a riddim or version. The source material is radically different, the method of working is not. Alligator is in its quieter, darker moments, an echoing wave of metallic percussion amongst the sound of disembodied voices and guitar wash. This is an album that revels in its claustrophobia, yet stretches every ounce of sound as it decays and fades. Some songs have whole new sections introduced as the song hovers on the edge of perceptibility.

The opening song "Alligator" is downright poppy considering some of the later versions, as it sticks to a steady increasing beat and washes of lo-fi blissed out guitar. "Version" that follows, strips all melody and pushes the metallic edges of the beat to the forefront of the mix. The song eventually fades as more delay is added. "Metallic Shuffle" is as apt a title as any, for the elliptical beat and deep bass hits. "Alligator Dub" takes the original Alligator and doubles it, stretching it and letting the interplay of textures swirl about. "Alligator Splendor" turns up the bliss with shoegaze guitars and a shattered beat. "Slow Dub" is at the center of the album, and is a grinding, funeral march of a beat. At over 15 minutes, the slow crawl of the song finds it disappearing into itself. So much so that the song collapses under its own weight. As it does, the guitar sputters and spits out shards of queasy and vaporous tones. Dub Version that follows strips all the melody and revels in the rhythmic textures and dense clusters of phase while a bass line smothers you. And so it goes with Deep Version, and Dub Rhythm and Dub Version II....

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see also: llarks