Smokey Emery
Quartz EP [7-inch; Indian Queen ]

Daniel Hipolito is the Phantom of the Collage. As Smokey Emery, he heavies the pipe organ deep the theater’s recesses through Quartz. It’s a sad fugue, that plays with your mind as it loops ominously. Is it my turntable that’s faulty? Is the vinyl warped? Is the Earth’s rotation stuck on a skip? I like these mind games and clearly so does Hipolito. The black and white imagery, the Dust Bowl drones, a mysticism never to be fully grasped. The black oval obelisk is heavy with the weight of the world; full of the misery and anger of those abandoned, left to wail unheard in their own basement.

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