graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm
Being the latest entry in the aluminium drink cans 'roadkill' diptych series, this particular object's attraction lay primarily in the extreme folding & consequent reshaping to which it had been subject in the process of its flattening transformation, its rendering down from three dimensions into (almost) two.
Soundtrack:
New Order 'Low-life'
Pavement 'Brighten the Corners'
Underworld 'Second Toughest in the Infants'
Finally having invested in a CD copy of New Order's mighty & enduringly exhilarating 'Low-life' (yes, we tend to do things very slowly around these parts), it was comforting to find that the associated artwork at least echoes that of the original vinyl LP version (the sleeve of which was very much a desired object) in featuring a translucent, tracing paper-like outer covering containing individual photographic portraits of the four band members, here thus presented sequentially:
A rare pleasure too to be reacquainted - in archaic-format cassette-style - with the sly wit, singular wisdom & idiosyncratic sonic aesthetic of Pavement, indeed brightening the corners of a graphite-shrouded Saturday afternoon. Although grounded in the familiar slow-quiet/fast-loud musical dynamic that grew out of the Pixies & thereafter grunge generally, this tendency seems particularly pronounced with Pavement given the especially languid-to-meandering nature of the former passages which then erupt with & into surprisingly energetic bursts: corking stuff.
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