Fishes
Tom & Gerry专辑介绍:by Brian OlewnickA follow-up to their recording on Erstwhile, this duo which operates under the name Tom & Gerry continued to mine the rough-and-tumble field of synth/drums duets. Lehn's analogue synth lends itself to all manner of rude noises, often sputtering and blurting along quite happily while Hemingway is a drummer who also delights in the art of clatter. The two are a well-matched pair and it's often a delight to hear them carousing, launching volleys of impolite sounds in each other's direction. On the shorter pieces, the musicians tend to confine themselves to a single territory of sound, Hemingway, for example, coaxing as varied a selection of tones out of a held cymbal as possible while Lehn elicits harsh bangs from his keyboard. Though occasionally the duo reins itself in (as on "Girandola") and investigates more subtle areas, more often Hemingway attacks his drum kit like a postmodern Gene Krupa and Lehn ga...