Future Slip, by Samara Lubelski (CD on Ecstatic Peace)
Description: Format:CD Label:Ecstatic Peace
"...Lubelski lets the song lift off even further, jettisoning the orginal arrangement’s more conventinal aspects – drums, guitar, bass – and lets her voice float among the various keyboards, woodwinds, and unusual percussion instruments. Along with her mulit-tracked harmonies, the changes make for a edtail - rich psych-folk reverie..." Pitchfork Samara Lubelski’s 5th solo LP ‘Future Slip’ serves up a gorgeous and friendly collection of bittersweet melodies, sinister basslines, gestural Polaroid lyrics, and spot-on drumming garnished with sprigs of fuzz, paired with a guitar Riesling. Produced by Thurston Moore. Our story is already in progress as of the late 90’s.. Samara made the crucial ‘In the Valley’ album (with Matt Valentine producing) and then announced she was going to make a Pop record. Over the course of 3 LP’s on The Social Registry and DeStijl, the occasional murmur from the Hall of Fame days became a full-blown songwriting affair. Samara found a working method that she continues with to this day: Cutting basics in her second home of Stuttgart, Germany with members of psych-freakers Metabolismus and bringing the tracks back to New York to collaborate with her U.S. cronies, which this time includes PG Six, Helen Rush, Steve Shelley, Willie Lane, Nicolas Vernhes, Werner Notzel, Moritz Finkebiner, and Thilio Kuhn. In 2007 longtime fan Thurston Moore recruited Samara and her violin skillz for his ‘Trees Outside the Academy’ album and tour. Familiar with the solo work, Thurston wanted to hear a new type of record from her: more confident, bolder. He offered an Ecstatic Peace! release if he was allowed to produce. Samara poached drummer Steve Shelley for her band, adding the missing backbeat to a swarm of overdubs. Thurston produced the mix sessions; lying sick on the couch calling out for more and more elements to be louder until a wonderfully aerodynamic version of the songs flew forth. And here is the result: ‘Future Slip’ is a worldly record, a record which offers ‘a taste of the new dimension’ but warns of ‘guru bummers’..
Track listing: 1/culture king ’66 2/empire’s dream 3/the evolution flow 4/future hold 5/headships down 6/the trip is out 7/new age slip 8/silver hair 9/walking in the waves 10/field the mine