Captured Tracks
LED ER EST - May 12"
$32.95
Limited colour vinyl.
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
(also check out Sam De La Rosa's 'Chameleon' LP - superb!)
Following up their excellent Wierd Records debut LP Dust on Common, Led Er Est return with a new 12" EP, the aptly named May, their second release on Captured Tracks. The trio describe the record as a ".. collection of theme-based songs, almost like a dark sci-fi film soundtrack...." The songs were written at various points on the long drives over the band's last European tour.
Side A opens with the dancefloor friendly "Lonesome XOXO", which, according to the band, is "a song about a girl obsessed with death." However, "Plants" contains a cosmic disco bassline and use of 12-string guitar, showing their influences fall outside the narrow margins of electronic music. This is further evidenced by "Madi la Lune" a nod to British underground songwriter Bill Fay. Side B gets darker and heavier with the apocalyptic sci-fi synth punk opener, "Opto 5." This mood continues into May and ends with the instrumental brain melter "Drosophilia Melanogaster."
Highly recommended by Strangeworld.
(also check out Sam De La Rosa's 'Chameleon' LP - superb!)
Following up their excellent Wierd Records debut LP Dust on Common, Led Er Est return with a new 12" EP, the aptly named May, their second release on Captured Tracks. The trio describe the record as a ".. collection of theme-based songs, almost like a dark sci-fi film soundtrack...." The songs were written at various points on the long drives over the band's last European tour.
Side A opens with the dancefloor friendly "Lonesome XOXO", which, according to the band, is "a song about a girl obsessed with death." However, "Plants" contains a cosmic disco bassline and use of 12-string guitar, showing their influences fall outside the narrow margins of electronic music. This is further evidenced by "Madi la Lune" a nod to British underground songwriter Bill Fay. Side B gets darker and heavier with the apocalyptic sci-fi synth punk opener, "Opto 5." This mood continues into May and ends with the instrumental brain melter "Drosophilia Melanogaster."
