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Two Lone SwordsmenFrom The Double Gone Chapel Warp/Inertia One half of Two Lone Swordsmen is international DJ Andrew Weatherall, which is part of the reason I picked up this disc. I didn't know then that he actually sings on it. 'From The Double Gone Chapel' is Weatherall's third album under the Two Lone Swordsmen moniker with partner in crime Keith Tenniswood, and it appears a good outlet for their mutual grooves. Weatherall's turn singing on their version of Gun Club's Sex Beat is a brave and timely new venture: his distant, cool, New Romantic intonation has come around to being hip again; as have the isolated lick which punctuates the clean bass loop in Formica Fuego, the dirty loose drums, and the flat production saving the track from no wave bland and hurtling it into genius fun. They think so too, as the very next track sounds like a reprise that rather disappointingly wafts along for the next four minutes. Nevertheless, these guys confidently straddle rock and techno; hardly new these days, but they do it with some swing. Not many tracks reach out and grab you, but the strong undertow, which has denoted much of Weatherall's previous work, coaxes one into the album (think of the seminal remix of My Bloody Valentine's Glider, or sounds from his ill fated nineties band Sabres Of Paradise). The tracks on 'From The Double Gone Chapel' are lighter, more spacious and spare than those earlier productions. There is a definite dip in the middle of the album, but things pick up again with Kamanda's Response, a romp with more life than Goth and more death than glam rock; it creates an unusual ambience, but is a cracking track. A certain mood does pervade this album; if you believe the bio it is the deep yearning for a more human sound after peddling techno around the globe. More likely two geezers having a craic.  |
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