| tue nov 14 9:00pm terrace club 62 washington rd princeton nj free |
| Baltimore-based noise band wzt hearts. |
| wzt hearts |
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This Baltimore quartet, who pronounce their name "Wet Hearts," are-- like the newer Boredoms, the New Orleans guitar-sustain devotees Belong, or the mouth-breathing, om-ing New Yorkers Double Leopards-- in search of a kind of transcendence through repetition and incremental adjustments. They find it in their own way: Though they allude, convincingly and often, to the Boredoms' Seadrum/House of the Sun, their best moments are their most processed-- long, humid, sustained tones and almost desultory, lagging, melodic progressions.
In one spot static, drenched in echo, cascades over the circled drum patterns spun out by Shaun Flynn; in another, ghostly drips fall as their gradually echoed pings of sound bounce down different registers, their colors changing as they gradually fade. Heat Chief's third movement rises, dark and ugly-- all toms and guttural noise-- while the fourth and final is the complete opposite, morning light gradually filtering into a cave.
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