Clearing – “Blank”
No Kings honcho and impeccable soundsmith Lee Noble lifted some of our SOPA blackout blues this morning with a newly-minted vid by Geoffrey Sexton, who’s previously helmed clips for the likes of Pink Priest and Sparkling Wide Pressure. This time around he’s teamed up with Clearing (Police Academy 6/Skylines’ Joseph Volmer), who recently hit up NK with the coyly-named No Titles cassette. Sexton’s refreshingly crisp (read: not Archive.org) collage pairs unsettlingly well with Volmer’s slow drones, which Noble compares to “Baraka-soundtrack-era Dead Can Dance and Philip Glass”.
Related: I never had a chance to properly gush about it due to my September-December hiatus from BA, but Lee Noble’s Horrorism is (still) an absolute killer of a record, and one that ranked high on my theoretical best-of-2011 list. Bathetic is unfortunately sold out of the goods, but you can still snag a digital copy from the good folks at Boomkat.