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To Destroy A City

by To Destroy A City

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Metaphor 02:55
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Narcotic Sea 06:14
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Ilium 05:33
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Philosophy Of A Knife 06:27
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Before The Outside's Gone 06:24
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The Marvels Of Modern Civilization 02:39
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Goodbye, Dear Friend 07:02
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March 04:00

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The debut self-titled album from Chicago-based trio To Destroy A City is an album ripe with slow-burning ambience, pulsating rhythms, and soaring guitars. Often building on a theme, the band weaves together pleasing melodic passages, creating compositions that are trance-inducing in their simplicity, yet layered with significance. The uninitiated may find To Destroy A City analogous to label mates Lights Out Asia and port-royal, and, due to some periodic drifting into similar spaces, the wide-screen ambient guitar duo Hammock. Such comparisons stem from the tools To Destroy A City use to convey their message; reverb-drenched guitars rub against lofty synths and live drumming entangles itself into deliberate and palpitating electronic beats. This is highly emotive stuff not without its epic moments that can bring a chill to the listener. A debut this seemingly thought out is a rarity and To Destroy A City make it sound as effortless as it is beautiful.

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released September 27, 2011

Recorded At – Windowless Room
(p) – n5MD
Engineer, Mixed By – Andrew Welch / TDAC
Mastered By – Greg Henkin, Jeff Anderson

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n5MD is an independent record label based in Oakland, California . The label primarily releases electronic music which focuses more on melody and emotion but also now releases music in compatible genres such as shoegaze, post-rock, IDM and electro-acoustic. ... more

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