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The BSC: 23% Bicycle and/or Ribbons of the Natural Order - Download

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23% Bicycle... captures the BSC shortly after an intense series of performances at the Phoneme Festival, a three-night event in Philadelphia featuring members of the band in a series of small groups followed by full BSC sets each evening.  In one sense, the music is tight and controlled, maintaining a sustained tension as events peel from one to the next, not so much moving forward as revealing increasingly buried layers.  But, from the very first sound, it is clear that everything teeters on chaos.  The familiarity between the musicians is apparent, as is their willingness to undermine that familiarity, to send each other to unlit corners and map whatever sublime beauty or horror is found there.  To say that the resulting music is dark is to miss its jubilance.  It is complex and visceral, the work of an ensemble committed to both its refinement and unravelling.

This is the BSC's first release since 2003's Good on Grob Records.