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Published on: 4/10/2008
Last Visited: 4/10/2008
A year ago, it was the guitar duo of Dustin Wong and Matthew Papich making fantastic music built upon barely affected riff acrobatics.
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Wong, the band's co-founder and guitarist for local art-squeal outfit Ponytail, made a decision to play full time with the latter, leaving Papich without a band.
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Like all of these sounds would end up more than the sum of their parts. . . . The melodies came from Dustin, and the new stuff isn't really melodic."
Indeed.
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At the time of the recording the band still included Wong, and it shows in those opening and closing minutes of near-shout and luminescence.
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That particular band--two guitar lines running straight into Gillen's mixer and looped live--played for a few weeks, touring with Dirty Projectors, before Wong departed, leaving Papich and Gillen.