Twentyfourth Show Playlist – 4th October 2011 – www.koop.org

PLAY ORDER	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	ALBUM TITLE	TIME	LABEL	COUNTRY	YEAR
1	Vasudeva	Upon The Shoulders Of Titans	Roots Of The Tree EP	4.45	Self Released	USA	2011
2	Neil Milton	Networks	Valentine 50	3.02	Valentine Records	Scotland	2011
3	Desierto Cobra	La Fete Folle	Desierto Cobra	4.07	Self Released	Chile	2011
4	Zvoov	Not Necesselery	Everbrown EP	5.56	Self Released	USA	2011
5	Silent Land Time Machine	Janus Is Asunder is The Sound Is The Truth Is The Light	Around – Compilation	2.53	Dreamland Recordings	USA	2011
6	The Clock	The Years We Shared In China Town	EP	6.59	Self Released	Scotland	2011
7	Death By Zoe	Resonance	Valentine 50	2.46	Valentine Records	England	2011
8	Cicada	Fading Affection	Pieces	4.42	White Wabbit Records	Taiwan	2011
9	Lost To The City	Sun & Sea & Stone	Around – Compilation	5.00	Dreamland Recordings	Australia	2011
10	To Destroy A City	Before The Outsides Gone	To Destroy A City	6.25	N5MD	USA	2011
11	To Destroy A City	Philosophy Of A Knife	To Destroy A City	6.28	N5MD	USA	2011

RECORD OF THE WEEK

http://todestroyacity.com/

The debut self-titled album from Chicago-based trio To Destroy A City is an album ripe with slow-burning ambience, pulsating rhythms, and soaring guitars. Often building on a theme, the band weaves together pleasing melodic passages, creating compositions that are trance-inducing in their simplicity, yet layered with significance. The uninitiated may find To Destroy A City analogous to label mates Lights Out Asia and port-royal, and, due to some periodic drifting into similar spaces, the wide-screen ambient guitar duo Hammock. Such comparisons stem from the tools To Destroy A City use to convey their message; reverb drenched guitars rub against lofty synths and live drumming entangles itself into deliberate and palpitating electronic beats. This is highly emotive stuff not without its epic moments that can bring a chill to the listener. A debut this seemingly thought out is a rarity and To Destroy A City make it sound as effortless as it is beautiful.

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