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MH-252 Lymbyc Systym - Love Your Abuser  Love Your Abuser, the debut full-length from Arizona’s Lymbyc Systym, is a sprawling post-rock epic. Brothers Jared and Micheal Bell have created an album of ten distinct pieces that capture an emotional range not often seen in instrumental music. From the playful to the sublime, Jared creates the core of Love Your Abuser with layer upon layer of vintage keyboards and effects. Michael’s virtuoso drum work and tasteful programming add the perfect complement to the melodies. The album maintains a consistent sound throughout, yet each composition stands on its own. Without uttering a word, Lymbyc Systym have made one of the most powerful statements in the Mush Records catalog. |
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| An intensely relaxing experience - Re:Up / The music of now - Scissorkick / So alive and varied that it's easy to forget the band is instrumental - Resonance / Blindingly colorful, lively, and optimistic - Flavorpill / It'll warm your soul - Ion / Fans of Tortoise, Four Tet, and My Bloody Valentine, take note. - XLR8R |
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| Arizona's Lymbyc Systym, aka brothers Mike and Jared Bell, specialise in the kind of spacious instrumental music that mixes electronica with live instrumentation, digital with analogue, intimacy with grandiosity. It occasionally brings to mind Tortoise, but maybe it's their Arizona background, because the music on Love Your Abuser is warmer and more organic than many of the more academic practitioners of post-rock and electronica. Despite that rather sinister title, much of the album is both inviting and supremely melodic: "Pittsburgh Left" is a perfect example of them blending accessibility with avant-garde techniques, as a chiming, serpentine keyboard melody plays over all manner of drones, found sounds and rhythmic pitter-patter. The record as a whole skilfully blends laptops, vintage keyboards and Mike's touchingly garage-grounded drums. The result is an album that is ultimately unclassifiable and all the stronger for it. - Rave |
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