Untied States by Alcool 68
Visions of a darker sort than dancing sugar plums were behind much of this new Alcool 68 album, cooked up during the holidays in November and December of 2018. "Untied States" is a sweep across the sprawling fields of American dystopia, where the familiar distorts and the ugly rises to the surface. Not so much a document of the future as a weird-trip view to the present minus perceptual blinders, the album presents music in meltdown, not unlike great swaths of the society that once experienced it before Alcool 68's sonic funhouse trickery was unleashed on it. "Untied States" is a soundtrack for dark nights with the TV on some endless news feed with the sound off and the jaundiced sodium-vapor glow of the cityscape softly gleaming through the windows from a bleak, overcast sky...a suitable background for the defective carnival ride that the USA has become in this Year of Our Lord 2018.
Tracklist
| 1. | Inside My Mind | 7:47 |
| 2. | Jazz and Industry | 4:17 |
| 3. | MKUltraMuzak | 7:22 |
| 4. | Social Malware | 6:00 |
| 5. | What Do We Want? | 5:58 |
| 6. | Un Rêve de Commerce | 6:57 |
| 7. | Now I'm Alone | 6:08 |
| 8. | Bumblehive | 8:14 |
Credits
De-and-recomposed from many fragments by Alcool 68, with suitable addenda here and there. Composed, engineered and produced in The Smoke-Filled Room, November and December 2018.
License
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.
Composer/performer in electronic and electroacoustic media, concentrating on avant-garde ambient works. Studied with John Anthony Lennon, Salvatore Martirano and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Also known to do vaporwave and related sorts of sonic tampering. Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, he currently resides and creates in Champaign, Illinois.