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tracks
1. chevy hex setup
2. nephophobia
3. polar kraken
4. psychic exhaust vehicle
18 minutes
reviews
"Number None are Chicago duo Christopher Miller and Jeremy Bushnell, whose highly elastic drones were most recently heard on a great Gold Soundz cassette. Their music is broken into smaller bits than those which the pair usually create, but they still manage to conjure a beautifully shifting tableau of guitars, pedals, and maybe synths. Unlike more static practitioners of the craft, these guys infuse their drones with a lotta motion, so they reward active listening a lot more easily than many of their contemporaries."
-Byron Coley, The Wire #277, March 2007
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"Originating in Chicago, Number None are an experimental drone outfit who explore the very edge of noise on their 3" CD Nervous Climates. Clocking in at 18 minutes the album is the sound of glacial movements, the single beat of an insects wing, or maybe the sun imploding. Eerie, dark and foreboding this is a strange trip of the highest order."
-Simon Lewis, Terrascope Online, March 2007
"With greater abstraction of purpose and fewer deviations in theme, Number None’s Nervous Climates 3" (on Mike Tamburo’s New American Folk Hero) has less the feel of an 'album' than of a 'project'; like a commission for a soundtrack, it's more deliberate and tied tighter to a recurring thesis. The howl of electronic wind forms the brief bookends "Chevy Hex Setup" and "Psychic Exhaust Vehicle", between which the 4 minute "Nephophobia" and 11 minute "Polar Kraken" rest. The two tracks - in accord with the pseudoscientific meteorological artwork and the oddly-evocative titles - stress microtonal shifts of elemental drones: the first at a high, thin altitude, the second in the far more tumultuous troposphere (and highly reminiscent of Robedoor’s dungeon doom). Well executed and smartly presented, you only appreciate this disc more when juxtaposed against the very different Urmerica as a testament to the band’s vision and ability. Sprayed black disc comes in a plastic sleeve with full-color insert, limited to 100 copies."
Animal Psi, March 3, 2007
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"Holy shit, Number None have really delivered on all the promise of their fine Urmerica album with this short and sweet mini-masterpiece. 4 tracks and 18 minutes and it's really just about perfect. Super-ghostly deep-brood stuff with strange and welcome hints of melody spun throughout. Plus, the CDR is spraypainted. Spraypaint always rules!
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-Blastitude #19
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"Number None work with thick ribbons of feedback and dark drones, constructing resonant hymns that arouse equally relaxing calm and portentous unease. This is shadowy music, make no mistake, though it doesn’t resonate with a decidedly sinister feel. Though they’ve not crossed to the dark side, Number None understand the advantages it can bring, and aim instead to harness its transcendental qualities."
-Adam Strohm, Fakejazz.com, September 2005
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