Potemkin Music, by TENCHPRESS

Potemkin Music

by TENCHPRESS

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eldudowski if it's on WSR it's a belter. cold hard fact. the particulars of this release shift and morph listen by listen. so it's good music then. do it ye lost and broken wanderer.

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1.	Ten Best Vidic Tackles 04:14	buy track
2.	Go Get The Strimmer 03:39	buy track
3.	Licky Licky Sticky Stamp 03:57	buy track
4.	Where Some There Somewhere There 02:29	buy track
5.	Covered In Honey In Bee-town 03:34	buy track
6.	Nothing But A Bootlicker 02:27	buy track
7.	Mammoth Rural Dust Storm 02:48	buy track
8.	Bay Crowds Shore Crowd Bays More 04:21	buy track

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TENCHPRESS returns when the world needs it least. Potemkin Music is a suite of sickly, insipid shanties. It’s raw in the same way a dog collar sore is raw, organic in the same way industrial sewage is organic.

From the grimy sizzle and chug of ‘Ten Best Vidic Tackles’, to the lurching robot nightmare of ‘Licky Licky Sticky Stamp’, to the kugelhammer pummel of ‘Go Get The Strimmer’, Potemkin Music has the craven feel of a battery-farmed album - alive, yes, but barely. It’s the sound of one little coarse fishy in love with the sound of plastic on metal and cartilage on wood.

Tales of paranoia and delight abound, populated with archetypes like the roaring dust storm, the inner sanctum of the misanthrope, the snake-eating mouse, and the jobsworth sublime, all in turn guided by the twin stars of Roberto Carlos and Patrick McGoohan.

With each song reusing, recycling, and borrowing melodic refrains, vocal cadences, and percussive elements from other songs on the album, and most of the percussion made by slapping, knocking, and hitting tables, cups, concertina cases, and bottles all found in Tench’s sunken wreck, the whole thing exists as its own little ailing ecosystem - a kind of sonic terrarium plebei.

Glance behind the fakery and the falsehood, and submerge yourself in Potemkin Music.

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released July 21, 2021

Sam Dillon: some percussion sounds on 'Covered In Honey In Bee-town'
TENCHPRESS: everything else

Mastered by Jon Hamilton

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