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The
Building Press, once a Seattle-based trio of AP Schroder (guitar/vocals),
Jeffrey Woodke (bass) and Eric Junge (drums), now is
captained solely by Schroder from an apartment in NYC. Just as well, from
a scene standpoint, as The Building Press stood alone in Seattle. No one
else played or plays music there like The Building Press. Frankly, The
Building Press of today sounds less and less like The Building Press of
yore, and even more remote in comparison to TBP of yon longer way. Call
it sonic de-evolution, their US Maple misinterpreting early-June of '44
at Pavement's press conference full confounding and elating the ears of
the adventuresome sort.
"
The Fall could almost be name dropped somewhere in here, but no, The Building
Press stumbles and stutters and scratches with far more grace and obtuse
angular forwards backwards beauty. Such graceful beautiful
awkwardness, so hard-boiled and angular and ‘difficult’ but
so so graceful and easy on the ear - so so satisfying and the quality
of the sound… Oh yes, please please do make the effort, I wouldn’t
want to be the only one here enjoying this so much – that lost world
somewhere between Shellac and Bark Psychosis." - Organ (UK)
RIYL: US Maple, 31knots, Storm & Stress, The Fall, June of '44, Deerhoof, Natural
Dreamers, A Short Apnea |