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01. YYY
02. Give Up
03. White Robe
04. Mother's Radio
05. Graveyard Mountain Home
06. Salvation
07. Before You Started
08. Human Love
09. Come In, Over
10. Pure Laughter
11. Andrew Was Drowning His Stepfather
12. Sad Sad Movie
13. True And Lost
14. Again Today
DVD - Age13 movie
Listening to the projects that Kevin Moore has recorded on his own under the name Chroma Key,
you'd never guess that he's a former member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater.
Graveyard Mountain Home, in particular, sounds more like a twisted collaboration between
Gabor Csupo and Muslimgauze than anything else you're likely to hear on the Inside Out label.
The shape of the music was inspired by a strange "social guidance" film from the 1950s that Moore
discovered; he slowed it down to half speed and stripped out the soundtrack, then used its surreal
action as a guiding structure for the music, which at times is funky in a glitchy, herky-jerky sort
of way ("YYY," "Before You Started") and at others is dark and meditative ("Mother's Radio," "True and Lost").
There are several songs, in the relatively traditional sense, such as the gorgeous and aptly
titled "Sad Sad Movie," and a few tracks are accompanied by found-sound voices, but the focus is
always on the music and the mood. The result is a surprisingly affecting and powerful work.
Highly recommended.
©AMG
