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I’m fascinated with this album.

Let me back up a bit and explain. Flesh EP is the astonishing new disc by this New York area quartet, and it is an absolutely mesmerizing, nearly hallucinogenic, completely hypnotic trip down Alice’s rabbit hole into a terrifyingly beautiful world of contrasts and juxtapositions. Mixing in touches of ambient rock, jazz textures, mid-tempo dance beats, a slap and tickle of drone rock and a big ol’ nod to some of the darker, pop masterpieces of the eighties, these cats have created an album that somehow manages to soar high above the cumulus clouds while never leaving second gear. It is a pack of contradictions within itself. An incredibly varied work that mines only one sound. The work of an extremely accomplished, mature hand, yet the band members are barely out of their teens (except for those who are still in their teens.) It is a work of mind-boggling beauty and abject brutality in the same breath. Extremely dense yet barrenly spartan. Gorgeous and terrifying. A sonic mind-f**k.

Getting the picture?

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