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Impure
Stendhal
Impure
Genre: Alternative Rock
 
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Dark experimental rock utilizing conventional and non-conventional instrumentation. Guitars, bass, drums, vocals, water cooler jug, one way sign, metal detector, TV set, fifty gallon oil drum, propane gas tank, glockenspie...  more »

     
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All Artists: Stendhal
Title: Impure
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Stendhal
Original Release Date: 9/26/2000
Re-Release Date: 10/2/2000
Genre: Alternative Rock
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 660355849022

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Album Description
Dark experimental rock utilizing conventional and non-conventional instrumentation. Guitars, bass, drums, vocals, water cooler jug, one way sign, metal detector, TV set, fifty gallon oil drum, propane gas tank, glockenspiel, vacuum cleaner hose, buzz saw, movie projector, piano, and AM radio. Imagine Bauhaus, My Bloody Valentine, and Einsturzende Neubauten fighting each other in a dark warehouse. Recommended for anyone looking for something that truly deserves to be called different.
 

CD Reviews

Rockpile Magazine
Kevin Miller | Philadelphia, PA United States | 01/03/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Sailing in with strange noises and seemingly random beats, squeals and static reaching out and clawing at the frontal lobes, there is an immediacy to the way the opening track on this disc builds. "The Boat Song" is an instrumental, which slides easily into "The Fourth Passenger", an edgy and eerie tune with some of the most hypnotic percussion ever devised. Each song on this strange and wonderful disc oozes magnificently into the next. Vocals slither beautifully around the guitar and bass. "Double Image" features an interesting and appealing little sax solo, while "Third Person Singular" displays a tense and mesmerizing relationship between each player, as if they are reaching out and then pulling away, trembling. Stendhal is a striking mix of gothic, industrial, and experimental influences, transcending all to make a unique and glorious noise."
Philadelphia City Paper
Kevin Miller | Philadelphia, PA United States | 01/03/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

""Johnnygoth" Yorio, guitarist for locals Stendhal, recently described their sound as "sonic terrorism." While that may conjure images of the sort of antitonal distortion fests that drive the pulse of the hardest industrial tunes, Stendhal's fury is a heck of a lot more musical than that. Their inaugural disc, Impure, is remarkably un-digital, with a heavy horror influence. Distorted bass, spidery guitar giggles and a percussion array that includes such demented additions as a bent-up one way sign and a provocatively miked water cooler bottle help yield the astonishing result of an ambitious resurrection and update of a sound that peaked in early '80s London. It's a welcome break from over-programmed, over-sampled "underground" music that's never two steps away from techno, and from so-called alternative music that's hashed from a static formula unchanged since 1989. Evocative and infectious, Impure has a beguiling energy that demands your attention."
Strength through Joy Through Noise through Impurity
Stephen Shukaitis | East Stroudsburg, PA United States | 11/15/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Damn - this CD is just amazing. Stendhal use all these wondefully mundane items to make sounds and textures that are anything but common. They mesh together discorant noise, texture and atmosphere in a way I've never heard before. And they keep changing styles every song - ranging from slow almost meditation ambient to guttural screaming and the din of decay. It's not realy goth, but it's not really anything that I canthink of that fits within a certain genre. The niftiest thing about the album is how they use bizarre and unsual structures, instruments, and styles in a way which makes them seem like they were meant be that way."