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ZOVIET FRANCE - What is not True

Format: do-LP Label & Cat.Number: VOD Records VOD165.14-15 Release Year: 2020 Note: first vinyl re-issue of CD album from 1993 (Charrm CD17), contains live material recorded in the UK a year before... \"Until the hypnic jerks kick in, this one’s got potential to takes listeners right out there to another place and time entirely. Best consumed by the keenest isolationists in a bothy on high moorland with a thermos and lots of layers, probably..\" [Boomkat] - 300 stand-alone copies Price (incl. 19% VAT): €38.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info \"First vinyl pressing of Zoviet France’s ritualistic 1993 album, originally available on CD via their Charrm label, now part of Vinyl-On-Demand’s comprehensive reissue programme ‘What Is Not True’ is a classic in the Newcastle band’s singular cosmos of ambient noise, and appears here slightly edited for vinyl purposes, with the paganistic drone and folk atmosphere of ‘Public Service Announcement’ and the liminal voices of ‘Not Just What To Say’ paired on the A-side, and their immense 54’ excursion into subharmonic drone ‘Cyclonic Sub Alien’ cleft in two over the other sides, sounding like some ancient pre-echo of Stephen O’Malley and Senyawa slowed 1000%. Until the hypnic jerks kick in, this one’s got potential to takes listeners right out there to another place and time entirely. Best consumed by the keenest isolationists in a bothy on high moorland with a thermos and lots of layers, probably.\" [Boomkat] \"For a band which had performed only a handful of live shows during its first decade, the bulk of Zoviet France’s ’90s releases are performance documents. What Is Not True assembles three long tracks from shows in Sheffield and Nottingham into a work of album-like cohesion. The 54-minute closer “Cyclonic Sub Alien” is a masterpiece of shifting drones that develop slowly into an ungodly cavern of noise before ending with the ghostly floating voices of a distant broadcast. Magnificent head music, to say the least.\" [Soundohm]