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ALIBI
V.13 No.8 | February 19 - February 25, 2004
Sonic Reducer
By Michael Henningsen
Meow Meow Snow, Gas, Bones
(Devil in the Woods)
Snow, Gas, Bones might just be as close as the world will ever
get to hearing Brian Wilson's heretofore unheard-in-its-entirety
presumed masterpiece, Smile. Wilson has said he shitcanned the
project because "it was inappropriate music to make," and
that's a pretty accurate description of guitarist Kirk Hellie's
noise-laden pop. Twisted Beach Boys harmonies wander in and out
of Hellie's monumentally effected and abstract guitar work for
a sound that is as much '60s So-Cal as it is '90s shoegaze. Which
is to say it's probably the best pop-ish record you've heard in
a very long time.
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