Shadow Instrumentals
(Abduction) Used LP $20.00
“From the explosive drum rolls of the opening track — Phillipe Sarde’s ‘L’appel du Vere’ from Roman Polanski’s The Tenant — to the darkly exotic finale ‘A Housewife’s Dram,’ this record from 2009 is a superbly crafted mosaic of whip-cracking vengeance, speakeasy hallucinations, and haunted geography. Italian western overtones. Carnivalesque freak show backdrops. Khorshid Egyptian guitar passages. Flipped-out electronic space psych. A thick damp fog must have been rolling in from the creek behind Randall Dunn’s West Seattle studio when these recordings were made. It sounds like the ultimate mid-’60s surf-vampire-western revival soundtrack, with elements of Joe Meek’s best Moontrekkers productions crossed with a dash of Badalamentian murder blues drama, setting the stage for Steve Schmitt’s cobra-twilight guitar work and Dave Abramson’s drum kit outlaw splatter.”