Blanche Blanche Blanche

***The Brattleboro, VT., duo of SARAH SMITH and ZACH PHILLIPS released several alien-sounding pop records as BLANCHE BLANCHE BLANCHE last year, of them the great and bizarre Wink With Both Eyes via Night People. Now they've got a new 7" single, "Scam" b/w "Press Dumps" out via Berlin's Adagio 830. The A-side treads further into the esoteric reaches of their surreal language, recorded to four-track cassette with all instruments triple-tracked. It's completely devoid of the skeletal keyboards that comprised much of Wink's foundation, instead pairing an anxious, drowned drum march from Phillips with Smith's monotone mantras. It's guest-guitarist Graham Brooks, though, whose haunted, blown-out solos make the track most peculiar and cinematic-- no doubt emphasized by his closing bit of spoken word, ‘The best thing about music is all the stuff you can buy.’"—Pitchfork. German import.