Loveliescrushing

Xuvetyn (Projekt)
by Angela Dauthi

These are some beautiful sound pieces that sound like a cross between some extended feedback loop via Experimental Audio Research (or possibly even Throbbing Gristle) with angelic voice drones over the top. Charming and enigmatic, Loveliescrushing live in a world where everything is soft and jagged. The crags are made of foam core, the razors of sponge. Intense layering adds even more colors to the palette, spinning sugar-laced cyanide castles into the fading sunset sky. The songs flow like sand dunes, sluggishly drifting across an empty waste, adding a shifting topography to the colors of heat and arid winds. Scuttling creatures gather to the rich variety of elongated melodies, little bits of random sound skitter across the pale sands of extended feedback, a sailing hawk of a voice slowly circles about the musical foundations generated from hundreds of altered guitars all playing approximately the same note. Harmonic patterns rise and fall, giving voice to the void, in a language that is felt rather than heard. It’s the voice of slowly altered reason, the voice of creeping dementia, gently fading into an abyss of focuslessness, were all colors become pastel, vivid swaths of sound knitted up into a caul of almost-notes. Be prepared to cease all immediate mental activity, and sink into Xuvetyn.