ENABLERS
Output Negative Space CD
ENABLERS. Those cunning, compulsive and malevolent
compatriots we
eagerly allow to drag us along to our willful destruction. Those little
demons that flutter in our ears encouraging us to do what we know best
not to do.
Fitting to its name, the
that are equally manipulative and encouraging to our darkest desires.
The band made up of journeyman veterans of Swans, Tarnation,
Nice
Strong Arm and Toiling Midgets merges dramatic and flowing melodic
soundscapes – of which SF Gate calls "possibly the world's best power
trio" – with the visceral spoken narratives of underground literary
veteran Pete Simonelli. It's almost as though the
band's fluid and
often soothing music exists to distract our better instincts while
Simonelli whispers above it all, urging and lulling
us into the dark,
decrepit world of his words.
Guitarist and recording engineer Joe Goldring has
collaborated with
Swans, Toiling Midgets, and Doug Scharin of June of
’44 under the
moniker Out in Worship, as well as with Neurosis’ Steve Von Till’s solo
projects.
Guitarist/bassist Kevin Thomson, veteran of Timco and
Nice Strong Arm,
has been playing and touring for twenty years and with his own projects
and has been a writing partner with Goldring for ten
of those years
collaborating on Morning Champ, Touched by a Janitor, and now Enablers.
Drummer Yuma Joe Byrnes has lent his unique take on the trapset
to
Tarnation, Broken Horse and others.
Pete Simonelli has been continually writing and
publishing his efforts
in underground literary journals for years and now brings his poems to
the table for Enablers.
Output Negative Space picks up where Enablers' previous Neurot
Recordings album End Note left off, adding more soaring melody to the
sometimes parched and brittle, sometimes coiling and steeped in
tension. It's musically reminiscent of the dynamics of Slint
and the
raw neo-beat intellect of Saccharine Trust. And, above it all, Enablers
make music that exists in a realm beyond the typical sing-song gestures
of traditional tunes. It's something altogether as powerful and
motivating as our own psyche.