{"id":11189,"date":"2012-01-01T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=11189"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:20:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:20:53","slug":"thomas-william-vs-scissor-lock-jewelz-new-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/01\/thomas-william-vs-scissor-lock-jewelz-new-editions\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas William vs Scissor Lock 'Jewelz' (New Editions)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOne of our most anticipated releases in the New Editions series, Jewelz<\/em> is the result of a long-term collaboration between two prolific Sydney producers, Thomas William<\/strong> and Scissor Lock<\/strong>. The pair gave audiences a first glimpse of their project with a face-to-face match at New Weird Australia\u2019s \u2018Unpopular Music\u2019 event in 2010. Since then they have retired to the studio, throwing around both their unique sounds, and the occasional battle analogy. Parrying each other\u2019s blows with hooks and counter-punches \u2013 they have delivered an expansive album laden with texture, unexpected hooks, and broad temporal arcs.
\nOutside of this collaboration, both producers have developed signature sounds and individual styles. Marcus Whale\u2019s relentless restlessness has seen him present a unique combination of manipulated voice, feedback and laptop processing under his Scissor Lock pseudonym, as well his much-lauded Collarbones project with Travis Cook (aka Cyst Impaled) and his debauched faux R&B boy band Black Vanilla (formed with Guerre and Marseilles). In the other corner, Thomas William is a fixture of Sydney\u2019s experimental music scene, shapeshifting through many guises as a musician, teacher, and director of artist run initiative, Serial Space. His blend of shifting synths, broken percussion and unstable tunings has so far featured on three full-length releases, two as Cleptoclectics<\/strong>, and a third most recently on Melbourne\u2019s \u2018This Thing\u2019 imprint.
\nIn Jewelz<\/em> all of these ideas and elements are naturally and effortlessly combined, a true representation and culmination of their stellar endeavours to date \u2013 an undeniable knockout.<\/p>\n

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Tracklisting.<\/strong>
\n1. Cadillic 05:12
\n2. Jewelz 08:15
\n3. Omega 09:22
\n4. Qusqu 09:33
\nAll music by Marcus Whale &amp; Tom Smith.
\nMastered by Tom Smith
\nSleeve design by Heath Killen.
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\nCatalogue.<\/strong> NWSED09
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Press:<\/strong>
\n\u201cJewelz is aptly named\u2014a little treasure. But not in the shiny conspicuous way of precisely cut and polished gems, rather the intrigue comes more from the strange geological forces at work\u2014the melting and compression\u2014that has gone into forging each of these raw sound compounds. Each sonic fragment making up the music is a curiosity, the samples alluding to something\u2014a song, an instrument, a texture\u2014almost recognisable but ultimately remaining elusive. These are then crafted into a set of songs that have enough angularity to offer a challenge, but essentially are still a pleasurable listen.\u201d
\nReal Time Arts, March 2012<\/a><\/strong>
\n\u201cThe product of a collaboration between Sydney producers Thomas William and Scissor Lock \u2013 the former a Director of a contemporary art space and the latter one-half of experimental beat outfit Collarbones \u2013 Jewelz is, rather unsurprisingly, completely surprising. The four-track EP, of which most songs are over eight minutes long, is a testament to artistic sonic exploration and blissful beat craftsmanship.\u201d
\nRave Magazine, February 2012<\/a><\/strong>
\n\u201cthe perfect antithesis to Phil Spector\u2019s endeavour to write and produce the \u2018perfect\u2019 pop song. On their first collaborative EP Jewelz they pursue an imperfect pop implosion \u2026 Like a many-layered trifle, William and Scissor Lock have produced a never-ending vista of microcosmic moments within an expansive audio-phonic universe. Get your spoons out and dig in.\u201d
\nThe Thousands, February 2012<\/strong><\/a>
\n\u201cThe entire thing is rounded out by the shimmering bliss of Qusqu, a track that comes the closest to a traditional sense \u2013 like Sigur Ros mixed with Pimmon with Birchville Cat Motel producing the most wonderful chill out experimentronica. I love this sort of music \u2013 both transcendent and challenging, Jewlez is a very fine release indeed.\u201d
\nDucks Battle Satan, February 2012<\/a><\/strong>
\n\u201cForget what you know about music associated with Cadillacs. You\u2019re not going to see David Banner, Outkast nor the shortas ridin\u2019 to this. Instead this can be heard as what might be mating calls of the Sorns [from C. S. Lewis\u2019 Out of the Silent Planet]. With the scattering of various tones from what could only be described as bent and twisted array of stem whistles these two Aussies Thomas William and Scissor Lock have painted a landscape of deep jungle rhymes.\u201d
\nHead Under Water, February 2012<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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