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Julie Slick — Julie Slick
(Bandcamp no#, 2010, CD)

by Jeff Melton, Published 2011-06-01

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Julie Slick's musical ideas and experiments are no doubt strongly informed by classic King Crimson, not only due to alumni appearing across the 14 well constructed tracks. Slick works well with both Pat Mastellotto (two tracks) and with Marco Minnemann ("Many Laughs"). The latter piece is a heavy bass rave up with some blistering guitar chops to boot by the young lady! Of the two songs with Pat, "Aphrodite" is the clearly the funkiest on the disc with a hefty dance vibe, while "Rivalry" comes off more like 80s new wave pissing without a clever goofy lyric. Three songs exhibit Fripp-ian sonic washes, using them as sound map for aggressive rhythmic excursions especially apparent on "Choke" and "Shadow Trip." The former piece is probably the best Crimson-like piece on the disc with the relentless drum track and swirling synth figures. "Shadow Trip" is perhaps the most straight forward song in the collection, with a spacey synth line.

Filed under: New releases, Issue 39, 2010 releases

Related artist(s): Marco Minnemann, Michael Bernier, Pat Mastelotto, Julie Slick

More info
http://julieslick.bandcamp.com/album/julie-slick

 

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