Weird Times, by Matt Jencik

Weird Times

by Matt Jencik

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Lost Tribe Sound Weird Times, indeed! Very grateful to Matt and Hands in the Dark for this album and the budget friendly price. This is a mixed bag of emotions, cyclical tones of warmth and sadness collide in a variety of rhythmic patterns. Matching what's going on in my brain right now. It's an album that if you try and skip through, you'll miss the point for sure. Spend some time with it, weird concept right... a full album listened to from start to finish. Brilliant cover art by Chris Hefner as well.

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1.	Relaxers 05:15	buy track
2.	Dead Comet Flyby 03:41	buy track
3.	Glass Blow 02:12	buy track
4.	Wanna Be Alone Right Now 03:52	buy track
5.	Cut-Up 02:49	buy track
6.	Cosmic Horror 05:02	buy track
7.	Deathdream 03:25	buy track
8.	The Future Door 03:59	buy track
9.	Dopplegänger 04:02	buy track
10.	Northland 02:35	buy track

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Matt Jencik is a musician based in Chicago. His most recent band, Implodes, released two albums with the label Kranky earlier on this decade and Jencik has been performing and recording since the early nineties in bands such as Hurl, Don Caballero, and more recently Slint, PAPA M and Circuit Des Yeux.

Weird Times is Matt Jencik’s debut solo album, in which he presents ten pure ambient, abstract drone tracks. Each song has been written using samples of his old, unused guitar riffs as their source. In composing them, he took that era of his songwriting through a process of ‘burial’ by deconstructing the rock guitar riffs and arranging them into very usable ambient sounds, and thereby developing a new way of composing freely. It is an immense pleasure to be able to showcase such a great modern album, which is both dark and dreamy, showing an impressive maturity and formidable talent.

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released February 3, 2017

Cat #: HITD 032

All tracks composed, perfomed & recorded by Matt Jencik
Artwork by Chris Hefner
Mastering by Jason Ward

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Hands In The Dark is an independent micro-record label based in Besançon (East France) which, since 2010, has focused on proposing exciting auditory explorations and singular visions of experimental and avant-garde music.

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