Mosquitoes ‎– Minus Objects
Mosquitoes ‎– Minus Objects

Mosquitoes ‎– Minus Objects

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Label: Ever/Never ‎– e/n-045
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 16 May 2020
Genre: Rock
Style: Experimental

Loose, anxiety-inducing post-post rock detritus from the mozzies!  Full spiel from E/N below... (mint / new)

Mosquitoes are back and they are deadlier than ever.


On Minus Objects, their second 12” EP for Ever/Never Records, Mosquitoes challenge the abyss to a staring contest. Utilizing deep-sixed static dub imperatives over post- punk’s skeletal remains, the enigmatic trio feint & parry, duck & weave, zig & zag like they were born to slip out of your grasp and into your bloodstream.
Within Mosquitoes’ all-encompassing buzz, we find a distant link to Mars’ furious caterwaul, a direct connection to the frizzle-fried no wave of Sightings, and a tense granularity that recalls Radian’s studies of disintegration. As the title implies, Mosquitoes create entrancing music using methods of subtraction. Paradox runs rampant over these nine tracks as Mosquitoes gesture towards the intimate, while retaining their forbiddingly alien textures. “Minus Object Four” overwhelms with resonant vocal hum, while “Minus Object Eight” is as desolate and haunted as any Burial track. Few bands can be convincingly accused of pushing the decrepit body of rock music into the future. Mosquitoes do so by hiding the corpse in a deep chamber where shadows lurk and mysteries abound.


Elusive, unnerving, sense-scrambling -- this is Mosquitoes’ modus operandi. They are a short-circuit made manifest, a cipher without decryption, a riddle without words. Mosquitoes transform the incidental movements of playing electric music (amp hum, string contact, cymbal brushes, ambient clatter) to conjure beguiling rhythmic structures. The initial impression is haphazard, but soon the mastery, and the majesty, become glaringly obvious. Mosquitoes have so thoroughly harnessed control of their close-mic’d soundworld that to observe the final result in its natural state is a thing of wonder. On Minus Objects, Mosquitoes have achieved a grand new pinnacle. 


Tracklist
A1 Minus Object One
A2 Minus Object Two
A3 Minus Object Three
A4 Minus Object Four
A5 Minus Object Five
A6 Minus Object Six
B1 Minus Object Seven
B2 Minus Object Eight
B3 Minus Object Nine