“The Big She” from Dustin Wong’s upcoming Thrill Jockey release still bubbles with the same eagerness of his earlier releases, but progresses with much less intention. Each layered guitar loop is explored to a much deeper degree, rather than feeling like a stepping stone up a mountain of loops toward the eventual peak. In that regard, the album title, Meditation of Ecstatic Energy, is surprisingly apt, resembling the more ambient, repetitive nature of one of Wong’s older projects, Ecstatic Sunshine, which used the same process of looping guitar cuts toward infinity, but in a much less intentional way. If the rest of the album moves like “The Big She,” I think we are all in for something really transcendent.
Meditation of Ecstatic Energy is out September 17 on Thrill Jockey.
• Dustin Wong: http://soundcloud.com/dustin-wong
• Thrill Jockey: http://www.thrilljockey.com
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