Zelienople: Hollywood

There's an important characteristic which distinguishes the releases on the Under the Spire imprint from most comparable outfits for contemporary electronica. Far from being single-mindedly obsessed by beauty, they're mysteriously opening up ambitious, yet emotionally appealing spaces where ideas intriguingly converge into sound and vice versa. „Hollywood“, a one-disc re-release of Zelienople's severely limited and long sold-out double-3inch from last year, is a point in case: Through a process of intense immersion, inspired improvisation and impulsive in-the-momentness, the Chicago-based trio are carving out delirious, dream-like stream-of-consciousness-narratives, whose objects seem monolithic and metaphorical, whose structures appear impenetrable and which unravel with an inescapable Shakespearean lyricism and logic.