Calling their 25th album Patience is a quietly hilarious move by New Zealand’s immortal gods of transcendental junk shop noise, The Dead C.
Its opening track, Empire, is a testing eighteen minutes long. Guitar feedback, usually a gestural shortcut to bite-sized rock thrills, becomes translucent ectoplasm, smeared over stumbling listless drums, wrapped in rehearsal room ambience.
Sensory deprivation alone suggests a descending chord sequence in the closing two minutes. The final piece, South, tickles the cochlea for a quarter of an hour with scratched strings, devotional gong sounds and truncated surges of frustrated energy.
The Dead C continue to reward our patience.
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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John Robins, Comedian
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Nicetime, Guardian.co.uk
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube