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Free Gold
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By Al Sotack
“We are Legion,” warns Texas noise collective, Indian Jewelry’s amusingly esoteric website. Along with a list of nearly thirty members, the site offers a likewise dark graphic from the band’s 2006 full-length Invasive Exotics: a childish and amorphous line-drawing of a serpentine hydra. Whether or not this was meant as a representation of the Gesarene demon is open to argument, but as band icons go, one could do worse. The collective represents various factions of the Houston noise scene (“We come from Swarm of Angels,” as the aforementioned website cleverly puts it) and overall, Free Gold is a multi-headed endeavor. With strong electronic and rock-oriented orchestrations, both blessedly lo-fi, these are compositions that drone and go somewhere. Everywhere. Like, all over the place. From their dark psyche, squashed-out base, Indian Jewelry reach out towards British folk elements (“Everyday”), seventies new-age synth arrangements (“Seventh Heaven”) and Joy Division (“Too Much Honkeytonking”). Not being for everyone is par for the course, but Indian Jewelry’s penchant for crescendo and solid rhythms keep the entire enterprise rocking, as demonstrated on Free Gold’s highpoint, “Hello Africa.” You can’t dance to it, but you can definitely bang your head like a man obsessed. (We Are Free)
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