October Language

Belong | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 7, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Carpark Records
• ASIN: B000CQO0X0
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,860 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Vinyl LP pressing. 2010 debut release from the New Orleans duo of Turk Dietrich and Michael Jones, An unraveling journey of sound that often teeters on the brink of disappearing before it even begins at all, October Language is every bit as emotional despite the coldness it projects. Somewhere in-between the physical lushness of Christian Fennesz's static-haze and the isolated melancholy of William Basinski, October Language is a series of compositions that that move in a glacial drift, decaying slightly with each desperate layer of processed guitar. --This text refers to the Vinyl edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a thick heady blast of sound that doesn't at all lose any of its gauzy dreaminess, March 18, 2006

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Aquarius Records (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: October Language (Audio CD)

Belong, belong (couldn't resist) in a world of washed out sound, faded memories and blistering layers of sound. Imagine the warm crackles of Endless Summer era Fennesz, a touch of Godspeed You Black Emperor aimed at monumental peaks and valleys, a Flying Saucer Attack eyes half closed eyes half open delivery with a My Bloody Valentine shimmering layer of sound thrown in for good measure. A duo from New Orleans, Belong do a really nice job of taking from their influences but also having their own unique take on the whole gauzy smeary ambient free noise sound. Their take being a thick heady blast of sound that doesn't at all lose any of its gauzy dreaminess. October Language is that great kind of record that can take on different lives when played soft vs. loud. It allows you to enjoy it quiet, as a textural layer that you can dream beneath or drift away on top of. Or you can blast Belong and they'll take you out of your dreams, and your head and into another state completely. So nice!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Headphone Commute Review, January 20, 2008

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Headphone Commute - See all my reviews

This review is from: October Language (Audio CD)

With their debut release on Carpark, the New Orleans duo, Turk Dietrich and Michael Jones, grind through filter overload, guitar based, heavily processed and distorted loops that seem to go on forever. For me, noise happens to be a new territory, and with the tightly clenched jaw I smile at its beauty, as I attempt to stand upright through the torrent of shoegaze unleashed by a hurricane. The intricate detail is revealed through layers of intense sonic bombardment, like staring at an abstract sharply outlined object for minutes, only to see its true contour after glancing at a white wall. As silence fades in, I am left with only microscopic sediments that encapsulate the feelings of destroyed and tumbled New Orleans. Considering there's a lot of data to sift through, the quality of the mastering is top notch, performed by none other than another New Orleans native and friend, Joshua Estis (Telefon Tel Aviv). Estis and Dietrich have previously worked together under Beneli moniker in remixing Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile. Diestrich also played the guitar on a track for Telefon Tel Aviv's Map Of What is Effortless. Highly recommended if you dig Ben Frost as much as I do. Also for the likes of Fennesz, Tim Hecker and William Basinski.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Language I Can Understand, January 31, 2010

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Jay Murphy "Jay Thing" (Landover Hills, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: October Language (Audio CD)

A stunning & shimmering dream of an album. These are gauzy, luminous, shoegazey, semi-drone dreamscapes that sound particularly great listened to on headphones/earbuds. One of the opening textures sounds like a CD skipping and in listening longer it fades into the artful mix. Sometimes reminding me of Stars of the Lid and Hammock, their songs build into majestic sonic crescendos before slipping back into infinity. I want to Belong.