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The Fun Years new full length CD entitled Life-Sized Psychoses is a 50-minute composition combining drones, textures and stretched out progressions. Split into five tracks (although we at Barge prefer listening all the way through), Life-Sized Psychoses is the perfect balance of soundscape meets song. A duo of turntable and baritone guitar, The Fun Years have disguised their instruments with atmospheric textures comprised of obscure samples and blissful repetition. The result is a stream of audio magma, filled with dreamy sound washes and subtle phrases that effortlessly tumble over one another. The Fun Years could be called experimental, but Life-Sized Psychoses is very well mapped out. In the same way that artists such as Stars of the Lid and William Basinski use time as a musical tool without pretense, The Fun Years compose songs (and albums) that allow you sink into and live with for an extended period of time. The duo concoct thick layers of rich drone and underlying harmony that artfully conjure notions of memory, space and the subconscious. While Isaac Sparks sampling creates an undulating haze of pops and crackles from abstracted vinyl recordings, Ben Recht's guitar work of often looped arpeggios and open tunings draws the listener into the world of The Fun Years. Simply said, Life-Sized Psychoses is a beautiful piece of music.