A.r. Kane
Up Home
REMASTERED ROUGH TRADE 4 TRACK E.P LIMITED TO JUST 500 COPIES Everything on "Up Home!" is bigger, richer; the guitars are huge, as though theyre being played through the clouds, massive gusts of blue-green noise that move across the stereo spectrum like weather systems. "Baby Milk Snatcher" is built around face-flattening dub bass, with glinting piano and shards of guitar ricocheting through the song. "W.O.G.S." is delirious to the point of expiration; "One Way Mirror" is their attempt at weird, lopsided anti-funk, the songs melody crushed by avalanches of six-string interference. And the closing "Up" is AR Kanes masterpiece, a disembodied thud pulsing at its heart as a six-note guitar melody spirals ever onward, Ayulis voice lost in its own reverie, hymning escapism via references to Jamaican political activist Marcus Garveys black star line. -Jon Dale, lead review in Uncut Magazine