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Eldorado music video directed by Grace Carter
Influences
Toronto schoolyard show no mic just boombox
Sounds Like
SOUND JUDGEMENT HOUSE SHOW
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WILLAMETTE WEEK PRESS 6/5/09 Mattress gets lumped into the same category as many of Portland’s dance and electronic acts, but in truth Rex Marshall is using his solo project to cook up an entirely unique brand of weird. Backed by a series of tape-recorded synthesizer tracks, Marshall crafts apocalyptic dirges that thrive on his baritone—so strong that it even rivals Tom Waits’. Were this insufficient to inspire a creeping sense of dread in listeners, Marshall also ensures that his performances are almost uncomfortably intense, couching frantic tunes in equally frantic visuals. SHANE DANAHER.
Legitimate minimal synth gets recorded, and the tapes are left to melt in a hot car like a Snickers. That’s the figurative M.O. of Rex Marshall, as Mattress – genuine weirdness, besmirched by these times of shitty lo-fi crap, but coming out as its own thing. Marshall employs that sort of vocal blandishment like Jon Glaser on TV’s “Delocated,” which informs the martial, clampdown synthesizer in long, arduous strokes, and plays more like one in a long line of isolationist innovators, from the Xex people to John Bender and Neil Hamburger. There’s a little bit of sleaziness to the whole thing, like it could slip into some seedy, non-existent cocktail lounge or the middle of a Ween record, that really helps you notice that Marshall has written real songs and is not just dicking around with spontaneous, uninspired notions. Favorites are “Gone to Waste,” a hipgrinder out of DEVO Corporate Headquarters, and “Roll Roll Roll,” which sounds like a Cars record baked into one of those record bowls from, like, Readymade magazine, and gets satisfyingly crunchy at the end. Bottom line is that the songs are great, and the delivery funny and weird, but with confidence. Put down the Digital Leather records and step to the real. 500 copies, clear vinyl. (http://www.maltduckrecords.com)
DOUG
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