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AVEC

Technically, a transient art form might require topical movement, shifting sensibilities, and tireless invention. If this is the case, then Avec's debut album If I Breathe I Fall Asleep is certainly transient in both substance and style. What is remarkable is how the band wields this ever shifting musical trope as a blunt emotional weapon that both surprises, startles and ultimately engages the listener.

Shape shifting and haunting, tense and erotic, each track seems to flower from a raw emotional collapse into the next. For example, While You're Down There opens with a twisted, psycho 80s dark rhythmic incantation that oddly blends into the forceful, evocative 16 minus 71. Then, with a sort of astral magnificence the album winds into the sexual undertones of the beguiling duet between singer/guitarists Brooks Harlan and Shawna Potter titled Imprinting, a stylish give and take that blends delicate guitar work with sensual lyricism. Finally the album wanders through the brooding undertones of Mandragora, a smoldering piece of vacillating vocals and light ethereal melodies.

To experience the true potentialities of a dynamic band with absolute artistic ambitions, check out Avec's If I Breathe I fall Asleep.

-- from AVEC's Myspace page.

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