Material Pop Volume One
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $19.00
“Ray Zarnowitz weaves lessons well-learned from the modern American noise underground, the loamy heritage of UK DIY, and punk as lifestyle / vocation into a strikingly personal statement,” observes Daniel Dimaggio. “Material Pop Vol. 1 wields genuinely idiosyncratic songcraft and rock’n’roll joie de vivre like corrosive agents, eating away at the tape loop sediment encasing its songs, and at the indignities of modern urban existence.” Andy Boay agrees: “On its face the record reads like John Cale or Mayo Thompson with Flying Nun production and sound design informed by the occult British Industrial scene. Disheveled and sincere, partly legible, partly lost.” Likewise, Macrae Semans admires how the album “deftly synthesizes post-punk and industrial influences into a compellingly murky and occasionally endearingly jaunty sound-broth that is able to pull off nuanced experimentation, melancholic pop and bleakly psychedelic vistas.”