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Brooklyn's Parts & Labor are appropriately named: their music ? part psychedelia, part noise, part all-out rock ? has a distinct air of something created in a workshop, hammered and bolted together by mechanics in overalls. It's not that it sounds ramshackle and homemade, more the opposite: it's so solid and unwieldy it's hard to imagine it taking the listener's mind up into the exosphere. Where you might expect some wispy, away-with-the-drugs singing, BJ Warshaw and Dan Friel both have the kind of hectoring voices that would suit a parade ground, and Joe Wong's drumming is just as military in its rigidity. There's nothing swinging around here. But in their favour, Parts & Labor embrace melody far more willingly than many of their counterparts on the US underground scene, building their layers of noise in a manner intended to excite and entertain, rather than confront. When the elements click into place in the most simple form, as on the the near-motorik of Rest, it's exhilarating stuff.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/10/parts-labor-constant-future-review
Diane Kruger Magdalena Wróbel Connie Nielsen Melissa George Cameron Richardson
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