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Speck Mountain - Blood Is Clean 7"

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Speck Mountain are back with a new single and a new energy. The warm, melancholic bath of “Hey Moon” and Summer Above has given way to a dirtier, more assertive, though equally mesmerizing sound. That’s the A-side, a Honey Owens (aka, Valet) song from last year that Speck Mountain have turned up the rock quotient on significantly, courtesy of sax, an age’s old bass mantra, and Marie-Claire’s barbed guitar attack, transplanted direct from the most severely dosed basement on earth. On the flip, “Backslide” approaches the kind of wide-eyed gratification that electronica has promised in the past, but rarely delivered—with several degrees of treated organ pulsating around Karl’s sweetly protracted guitar tease. So here are two sides of Speck Mountain, showing the breadth of their vision.

1. Blood Is Clean
2. Backslide