SINTESIS MODERNA/AN ALTERNATIVE VISION OF ARGENTINEAN MUSIC 1980 1990

Description

Double Exposure is not necessarily a new beginning, but this album contains some of the rawest and most deconstructed sounds that James Hoare – from Veronica Falls, Ultimate Painting, and The Proper Ornaments – has recorded to date. For the first time, the guitars take a back seat. This is by no means a "no guitar" concept album; it is simply the final result. It would also be inaccurate to suggest that the guitars have been completely banned, especially after the double six-string solo on the powerful opening track of the album, Regrets. It may not necessarily be Skynyrd, but it is undoubtedly a spine-tingling experience. Following the first album Backwater Collage released in 2024 under the pseudonym Penny Arcade, here is a hallucinogenic experience whose backbone is the drum machine that inspired the songs. It is also an album imbued with a sweet duality. The album features a few guests, but it is essentially a solo album of experimentation, with compositions bursting through the stereo before fading away again. Nothing is too thought-out; it is an album of ideas. Like most of the tracks on the album, it was recorded almost instantly, with a simplicity and authenticity that heavy overdubs and meticulous arrangements could never achieve. It is an album that exudes strong energy. 'Double Exposure' is a collection of unadorned songs. Double Exposure, named after the photographic technique, consists of layers of ideas that were not written as pieces, but rather as spontaneous melodies that form their own abstract image. The album sits somewhere between Syd Barrett's relentless experimentation and Tim Presley's unpretentious analog innovations under the name White Fence.