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There’s a secret history of twentieth century music – well, Alex Ross told part of it – informing a huge number of players working in what amounts to noise of the most wreckless variety. With the explosion of lame tape culture and its eventual recognition by the straight press, one would have imagined that critics hearing Sightings for the first time would be able to recognize antecedents. There’re a bunch of ‘em. But in the interest of ‘breaking’ a genre, or just sounding intelligent, Sightings have gotten a pass and been granted access into some cultish world of music as studio art where everyone’s an underground star and in love with analog. Hearing City of Straw should really make just about anyone with an inquiring mind figure there was something preceding this, made with less technology in an age when recording anything other than pop songs was unheard of. Oh yeah, Brooklyn’s still a piece of trash.
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