VRIL - Effigies In Cork CD (Mega Blowout Sale)
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Nice record by an instrumental trio of Lukas Simonis-guitar, Bob Drake-bass, Chris Cutler-drums, playing music very much in the vein of The Ventures and of twangy guitar / instrumental music of the sixties. The main goal was to:" return to the old work method, rarer today, where the band sits around with instruments, plays the pieces in real time, and works out the arrangements together, and then records them while they are still fresh."
The ‘twangy guitar / instrumental rock sound’ definitely brings to mind Forever Einstein, although a little less 'tricky', and this is closer to the roots of that style than Einstein. Nice!
"VRIL is an adrenalized, poppy, rampant batch of rock guitar instrumentals. The Shadows, The Ventures, Surf music, early Hendrix are invoked, but they're all put through the intense mangle of 21st century thinking and studio trickery and performed by three unlikely avant-garde musicians.
It's a twangy guitar album gone mad, complete with a fascinating art-and-texts booklet which reads like a liner notes by Edgar Allen Poe.”