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Sic Alps
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July 16, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Steel City Media Jul 16-Jul 23, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Sic Alps
Noise Is EZ
SAN FRANCISCO garage-psyche duo" Sic Alps aren't necessarily what you'd call "noise," but they might be "noise-y," and certainly they're "noisy" - and an ideal study in the function of noise in a larger sense.
The duo's aesthetic is very much about interference. The packaging of their latest offering, A Long Way Around to a Shortcut, (a collection of tracks from older limitedrun releases), features typewritten lyrics,." songs running into one another, letters bleeding through to the other side of the insert. The form is imprecise, the mistakes crossed out rather than deleted. Likewise for the record's sound: garagey rock that recalls the weirdest of the late '60s think ...
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