Mosquitoes / Minus Objects 12’’ Black Vinyl

Mosquitoes  / Minus Objects 12’’ Black Vinyl

Cat #: e/n-045 
Barcode: NONE
FORMAT: 12’’ black vinyl LP
LABEL: ever/never records 
RELEASE DATE: May 16th, 2020 

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: 

Minus Object One
Minus Object Two
Minus Object Three
Minus Object Four
Minus Object Five
Minus Object Six
Minus Object Seven
Minus Object Eight
Minus Object Nice