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The Fun Years’ new full length CD entitled "Life-Sized Psychoses" is a 50-minute composition combining drones, textures and stretched out progressions. Split into five tracks (although we at Barge prefer listening all the way through), "Life-Sized Psychoses” is a perfect balance of soundscape meets song. A duo of turntable and baritone guitar, The Fun Years have disguised their instruments with atmospheric textures comprised of obscure samples and blissful repetition. The result is a stream of audio magma, filled with dreamy sound washes and subtle phrases that effortlessly tumble over one another. The Fun Years could be called experimental, but "Life-Sized Psychoses" is very well mapped out. As artists such as Stars of the Lid and William Basinski achieve, The Fun Years use time as a muscial tool without pretense. They concoct thick layers of rich drone and underlying harmony that artfully conjure notions of memory, space and the subconscious. While Isaac Sparks’ sampling creates a thick haze of pops and crackles from abstracted vinyl recordings, Ben Recht’s guitar work of arpeggios and open tunings draws the listener into the world of The Fun Years. “Life-Sized Psychoses” is a beautiful piece of music, and we are excited as well as honored to have The Fun Years on board the Barge Recordings roster. |
