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Top Down

by Night Sky Body

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Angels of Flesh 03:56
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Slipcase Outlaw 05:42
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See Through 04:59
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Top Down 06:56
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Tap 07:26
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Top Down is an investigation into abstracted industrial rhythms and ambiguous mental spaces. The creation process was born out of a need for catharsis and release. Lyrical fragments are pulled from dream journals and overheard conversations. The unconscious blends with the conscious and is fleshed out within a sonic landscape of broken electronics and distorted textures.

Recorded and produced by Frank Baugh, 2021.

Artwork by Austin Gaines
Layout by Matt Sullivan

Released by Nailbat Tapes as part of the Synapse Series

"Top Down from Frank Baugh’s Night Sky Body project is the second in the Synapse Series for Nailbat Tapes, a label that I didn’t think would release this kind of acerbic, atonal, electro-no-wave-post-punk-guitar-and-synth-driven project. One that was completely unknown to me at this point.

Side A of Top Down has several songs veering into the tape cut up/drone/abstract guitar zone, what could pass for modular sounding stuff in parts, then completely dives into a shoe gazing area with twittering synths awkwardly on top of echoing percussions.

Some of the noise is “in tune” with synths or guitar, sometimes not. The spoken vocals are quite effective with the editing and processing creating what could be pop version(?) of Alvin Lucier playing with This Heat or early Cabaret Voltaire. None of it feels like a hipster hack job to these ears. I’m always game for this sound when it’s done with experimentation and hooks in the same songs. I found there’s passages that extend from a live band feel into some sort of edited music concrete experiment on parts of this tape that really worked for me.

Side B’s opener, “Top Down,” has a great guitar riff that drives a dirty chord dirge into swirling disaster and irradiances of guitar drone… great shit right here. We arrive on the other side with “Tap,” a patient and paranoid, Motorik rhythm affair that sort of drifts for a bit of time, and returns like an errant shampoo commercial. The computer spits out random bits of information and that’s what we get while the results of the bipodal morphed quadruped reptilian elections are beaming back from the mother ship. The TV receptor is a bit on the fritz and has fits of static pulsations, which display across all of the screens in the store display at the Wal-Mart. These sounds are what you get at the end of side B rather than the band you hear on the first side. A winner for the weirdos."

-Jacob DeRaadt (Tabs Out)

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released October 15, 2021

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Night Sky Body Murfreesboro, Tennessee

FKA Sparkling Wide Pressure. Collaborator in Horse Hair Everywhere, Young Wife, and Pain and Its Relief. Dark abstractions.

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