"A solo project of Zach Phillips of unclassifiable Brattleboro, VT new-wave art-freak crew Blanche Blanche Blanche (LP on Night People forthcoming), Bruce Hart is a hard-edged lab rat renegade who’s engaged in an ongoing socio-psychological mind-war with nefarious invisible chemical-industro corporations. How exactly that relates to the music on Music For Drawing at hand is fairly subtle (and hinges on the listener’s predilection for dystopian conspiracy theories), but the 13 warped cyber-synth themes here offer a bizarrely unique vision of hacker-vibed retrofuturist synthesizer crud and hijacked drum machinery. Some singles (“Am I Wearing Glasses,” “Lab View”) chug along with a real chrome-lensed digital-punk energy while others (“Planet Scene,” “Hart Sutra”) bubble away peacefully into the cosmos, so there’s a major range at work that helps explain – albeit in a peripheral, abstract way – the willfully obscure origins of dynamic man-of-mystery Bruce Hart. A tough tape to explain but it totally flows and has a solidly twisted style. Plug in."--Not Not Fun
MP3 $9.90
08/22/2011