“War and Peace,” says Felipe D. on track two, “are like Peanut Butter and Jelly.” More concise than Tolstoy, forsooth. I can only imagine war gore is about as sticky — chunky PB, no doubt. And I think peacetime in the woods would be apricot. Felipe also says in his liner note that this is an EP for the winter of 2011. Sounds good to me. It’s a robust EP at that, running at around 30 minutes, full of delayed shimmers and unrestrained vocals. It manages that weird measure between energetic beats but atmospheric harmonies. You’ll drift in and out, which is surely the intent. The liner notes continue to point out that the EP is an incidental project, stumbled upon during the making of DAMEDAS’ second LP, a “gift for the holidays.”
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