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Sponic Zine Past Is Prologue
With a warbly, heavily-affected falsetto and enough reverb to reawaken a slumbering volcano, Altered Statesman's music simultaneously comforts and unsettles. Spidery electronic accents and wah-ridden space outs aren’t uncommon, so don’t freak when Poulton pinches your gray matter like an old lady squeezing a grapefruit at the supermarket. More than anything, this music is laidback as hell. As freaky as shit gets at times (track 4), it’s always the kind of stuff you could imagine hearing in an out-of-the-way New York jazz club (or in your mind after smoking a shitload of expensive weed). Never abrasive, always diverse (tinges of country, lots of horns), Past Is Prologue is a trippy excursion into a soft-focus world where feelgood stoner jams and experimental jazz meet and make friends. |
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Steve
Poulton’s home-recorded soul music sounds like it’s
leaking from a tube in the sky, echoing over our damp, slowly-revolving
planet like loudspeaker announcements for the broken-hearted astronomer.
His Ohio River Valley-based project Altered Statesman produces
a loose and subtly weird music that should appeal equally to fans
of avante-garde rock and ‘70s soul-pop.