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Hand-assembled and locally cut in Newcastle, Australia. Higher than usual cost is due to low pressing and consequent increased production cost involved.
Includes unlimited streaming of Garland And Gauze b/w On The Door
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Two songs by Newcastle duo, Troth, made up of Amelia Besseny and Cooper Bowman. Both take song-based structures and mulch them, sculpt them, into new forms. ‘Garland And Gauze’ does so via a densely layered hallucination of Besseny’s ethereal vocals drifting at the forefront of piano, drum machine, guitar and other wired implements. ‘On The Door’ is centred on a rudimentary harp and bass drum loop, with an actual dream recounted over the top by Bowman and some other clues sprinkled around.
Some “FFO” touchstones could include The Shadow Ring, Julee Cruise, This Mortal Coil and/or Gareth Williams & Mary Currie.
Locally produced and hand-assembled 7", limited to 25 copies.
Review courtesy of YGR:
"I love when labels dedicated to tapes put out records. It’s like watching a straight-edge person drink their first Long Island Iced Tea: you feel a little improper about the whole thing but you also know they’re going to have a great time. Altered States kinda split the difference here with a limited 7″ that seems to be somewhere between a dub-plate and a lathe cut, at least in how the vinyl looks and feels, because the sound quality is on par with factory-pressed wax. Troth is the duo of Cooper Bowman and Amelia Besseny, and they’re getting all lush and steamy on this single. “Garland And Gauze” sounds like its title: soft, slow-motion kicks open into a room filled with pink smoke and incense, more of an ambient stasis than any sort of groove. If Fabulous Diamonds released a drone record on Not Not Fun it might offer a similar result. “On The Door” carries a similar sense of lightness in the dark, although it progresses with a back and forth between a roomy percussive chug and a three-note piano melody. Bowman is talking underneath it all, in confused/confusing Shadow Ring fashion, which helps give the whole thing the lightweight industrial obfuscation of a later-period Blackest Ever Black release. Both tracks come and go fairly quickly; “On The Door” in particular feels like it’s winding down just as it’s getting started. I suppose if I wanted to hear more, that’s what all their cassettes are for. Well played, Altered States!"
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