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Minus Objects

by Mosquitoes

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    Mosquitoes are essential seneschals. What court, you ask? New Jupiter. Yep, they guard the threshold of the whole planet. Representatives of the Hexerei and Braucherei Guild beamed up for a brief exchange to learn something of their Suicide-inflected sound. But, that sure isn’t Scion retroactively influencing Rev. - Tom Lax

    Caustic dubs and wailing voices that search for space in the static; nervous skittering that fidgets under a layer of dust in a hollow acoustic space. - Jennifer Lucy Allen , Quietus

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Mosquitoes are back and they are deadlier than ever.
On Minus Objects, their second 12” EP for Ever/Never Records, Mosquitoes challenge the abyss to a staring contest. Utilizing deep-sixed static dub imperatives over post- punk’s skeletal remains, the enigmatic trio feint & parry, duck & weave, zig & zag like they were born to slip out of your grasp and into your bloodstream.
Within Mosquitoes’ all-encompassing buzz, we find a distant link to Mars’ furious caterwaul, a direct connection to the frizzle-fried no wave of Sightings, and a tense granularity that recalls Radian’s studies of disintegration. As the title implies, Mosquitoes create entrancing music using methods of subtraction. Paradox runs rampant over these nine tracks as Mosquitoes gesture towards the intimate, while retaining their forbiddingly alien textures. “Minus Object Four” overwhelms with resonant vocal hum, while “Minus Object Eight” is as desolate and haunted as any Burial track. Few bands can be convincingly accused of pushing the decrepit body of rock music into the future. Mosquitoes do so by hiding the corpse in a deep chamber where shadows lurk and mysteries abound.
Elusive, unnerving, sense-scrambling -- this is Mosquitoes’ modus operandi. They are a short-circuit made manifest, a cipher without decryption, a riddle without words. Mosquitoes transform the incidental movements of playing electric music (amp hum, string contact, cymbal brushes, ambient clatter) to conjure beguiling rhythmic structures. The initial impression is haphazard, but soon the mastery, and the majesty, become glaringly obvious. Mosquitoes have so thoroughly harnessed control of their close-mic’d soundworld that to observe the final result in its natural state is a thing of wonder. On Minus Objects, Mosquitoes have achieved a grand new pinnacle.

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released May 16, 2020

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