EB Exclusive: Stream To Rococo Rot’s Album <i>Instrument</i> and Video for “Classify”
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# EB Exclusive: Stream To Rococo Rot’s Album Instrument and Video for “Classify”
Last year, the trio of To Rococo Rot, consisting of brothers Robert and
Ronald Lippok and Stefan Schneide, re-released three of their critically
acclaimed early electronic/post-rock LPs, *Veiculo*, The Amateur View
and *Music is a Hungry Ghost* via City Slang. Fatefully, No Wave
pioneer and regular EB contributor Arto Lindsay reviewed them in our
[Winter 2012/13 issue of EB Mag][1]{: target="_blank"}, praising what he
called their ". . . irreducible electronics: sounds you can't break down
into their component parts because their already subatomic." It was no
less than Lindsay's review that then became the catalyst in bringing him
together with the band to collaborate on TRR's new album *Instrument*,
and today we're very proud to premiere the result(s).
In the video for "Classify", a three-minute Paleozoic-themed gem,
Lindsay and TRR turned to Orson and Pola Sieverding to help visualize
the richness of their sound world in a series of slow shots of various
sea life in a public aquarium (as well as reptiles in the neighboring
terrarium.)
Lindsay also prominently features on two more tracks of TRR's latest
album, *Instrument*, which is their first ever (of 8) to feature what
the band call "actual songs"---and certainly the first to feature any
kind of vocal. The rich androgyny of Lindsay's voice and refined
production quality set instrument off into an interesting trajectory, in
which TRR's explorative tendencies are harnessed by a vocal guide. All
in all: it sounds damned good, maybe our favorite City Slang release of
the past year and a half.
And since we're feeling generous, check out our Facebook to [win 2
tickets for tomorrow's To Rococo Rot show in Cologne][2]{:
target="_blank"}. Don't say we never gave you nothing.
[1]: http://issuu.com/eb_magazine/docs/ebmag_32/29
[2]: https://www.facebook.com/ElectronicBeats/posts/10152487654409536
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# EB Exclusive: Stream To Rococo Rot’s Album Instrument and Video for “Classify” Last year, the trio of To Rococo Rot, consisting of brothers Robert and Ronald Lippok and Stefan Schneide, re-released three of their critically acclaimed early electronic/post-rock LPs, *Veiculo*, The Amateur View ...
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irreducible electronics: sounds you can't break down into their component parts because their already subatomic." It was no less than Lindsay's review that then became the catalyst in bringing him together with the band to collaborate on TRR's new album *Instrument*, and today we're very proud to...