Sego
– Once Was Lost Now Just Hanging Around (Raygun Music)
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LA based alternative rock duo release their
debut album.
Those mourning the (seemingly temporary) absences
of James Murphy and LCD Soundsystem could well help themselves by listening to
the debut thirteen track collection from Sego.
With a string of well received EPs behind them, Spencer Petersen and Tom
Carroll have concocted an album of hard hitting yet danceable tunes which are
often abrasive and tight.
As the pair grew up in Mapleton, Utah Petersen
attended high school and college where he studied symphonic bass then moving on
to audio engineering and studio production.
As a multi-instrumentalist his compositions lead from the drumbeat. Caroll’s background is one of dance from a family with a of tradition Irish dancing.
One Was Lost Now Just Hanging Around is
alternative rock pop as its best. Beats
are fast, there’s a comedy element in several situations and the often spoken
word works superbly against the backdrop of well-produced electro based segments. It’s all go-go-go as everything falls below
the four-minute mark creating an album that is fast moving and flowing.
Like LCD Soundsystem and DFA there’s a healthy post-punk
element to Sego too. Their D.I.Y.
approach dictates a sound that lends itself to the home-made feel and recent
single The Fringe perhaps follows Daft Punk Are Playing At My House for its raw
and energetic content.
The entire collection is underpinned by a free
and easy, do as you please, philosophy.
It’s not tied or held back by any pre-meditated constraints and, for
that is entertaining alone. What makes
the album so fascinatingly enjoyable is its flow and boundless energy.
Essentially, Sego have made a fine album. Whether it be the downright poppy, Calvin
Harris-like bass line of Micky Macali or the insane Proper Noises (you are
hereby challenged not to laugh at some point), the duo has made an album which
will be hard to follow.
Fool Around sounds gloriously out of tune at
times and is the mark of near genius, whilst album closer Where I Belong
presents cascades of falling synth sounds which combine to make a party feel
ending.
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