DRAIN BRUGS - "ELEVATOR" 7"

The debut vinyl output from Cease And Desist is here: a mysterious Drain Brugs 7" for your ears to chew on.

Side A: The opening seconds of Elevator immediately transport me to the Velvet Underground’s jam room with repetitive Mother Tucker drums and a more repetitititive and warbled keyboard 2-note-drone. Don’t use any more ideas than you need to if it sounds good, right? Drain Brugs allow themselves to settle into the motif before introducing any changes, lest the mood get too energetic too quickly! A second melody welcomes itself into the fray; tasteful and under the radar, not wanting to draw too much attention to its presence accompaniment, but still never serene. The largest shift takes place when the drone removes itself almost entirely, brushing the dirt off its knees from all that time spent crawling through your mind before making a fresh appearance anew with a sleek melody, quite proud of itself and showing off a more flamboyant side. Beautiful. Bravo. Encore.

Side B: Cleaners From Venus inspired instrumental with a Spiritualized bent, perhaps a hint of 1990's NYC boombox culture for good measure. Mikey’s Nightshift is oddly triumphant – an announcement, a heralding, a celebration. Simple music done well is good music. This is good music.