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FRANKE ENE |
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NO LONGEREMPTY CELLARFormat: LP Cata No: EMP046 Barcode: 767870663819 Format: CD Cata No: EMP046CD Barcode: 767870663802 |
| “No Longer is a suite of six absorbing, patient reveries on conflicted concupiscence and encroaching darkness by Berkeley songwriter Frank Ene, who composed the material in a period of solitude following the demise of his noise-pop group Pure Bliss. Ene abstained from socializing to write the songs, venturing outside mostly to work in the basement of a frame-shop or observe students on the nearby UC Berkeley campus, vintage self-help paperbacks stuffed in his pockets. When it came time to record, he opted to play nearly every instrument himself. ‘Some songs are affirmations,’ he said. ‘The saddest ones I can’t remember writing, as if someone entered my mind and body in a really brutal way.’ “Suffused with an atmosphere of slow-simmering tension, No Longer traffics in understated grooves reminiscent of latter-era Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, with Ene’s rich voice somehow sounding at once wispy and full-bodied. ‘Flesh In The Womb,’ one of the songs to feature songwriter and Fresh & Onlys guitarist Wymond Miles, channels the lasciviousness of Serge Gainsbourg as well as the beguiling sparseness of Dean Blunt. The lyrics to ‘Housing Alcove,’ a crushing meditation on childhood trauma, reveal competing, interconnected feelings of vulnerability and ambition (a duality captured by the evocative album art). A dynamic, repeat listen, No Longer stands among the most musically arresting and emotionally contoured Bay Area solo debuts in recent memory.” —Sam Lefebvre |
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| BENT ARCANA BENT ARCANA CASTLE FACE | |
| BURNING BUS S/T IN THE RED | |
| CRAZY DOBERMAN HYPNOGOGIC RELAPSE AND OTHER PRENUMBRAL PHENOMENA DIGITAL REGRESS | |
| DON HOWLAND ENDGAME IN THE RED | |
| FRANKE ENE NO LONGER EMPTY CELLAR | |