{"id":4660,"date":"2010-12-15T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T16:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antigravitybunny.com\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2010-12-15T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T16:22:10","slug":"jenks-miller-nicholas-szczepanik-american-gothic-small-doses-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/?p=4660","title":{"rendered":"Jenks Miller &amp; Nicholas Szczepanik &#8211; American Gothic (Small Doses, 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/antigravitybunny.com\/?attachment_id=4661\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4661\"><center><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/antigravitybunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jenks-miller-nicholas-szczepanik-american-gothic-album-cover-500x494.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jenks miller &amp; nicholas szczepanik - american gothic album cover\" width=\"500\" height=\"494\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jenks-miller-nicholas-szczepanik-american-gothic-album-cover-500x494.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jenks-miller-nicholas-szczepanik-american-gothic-album-cover.jpg 712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsebacknoise.com\/\">Jenks Miller<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nszcz.com\/\">Nicholas Szczepanik<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/antigravitybunny.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/Jenks%20Miller%20%26%20Nicholas%20Szczepanik%20-%20White%20Light.mp3\">White Light<\/a><br \/>\n<audio src=\"https:\/\/antigravitybunny.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/Jenks%20Miller%20%26%20Nicholas%20Szczepanik%20-%20White%20Light.mp3]\" controls><\/audio><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnother glorious collaboration, although I&#8217;m not gonna lie, I hadn&#8217;t heard anything by Jenks Miller prior to <i>American Gothic<\/i>. Not that it matters. Anything Szczepanik does is guaranteed gold and I was super pumped to hear him work with somebody else, so I was destined to love this record no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>The opening track is one of the best. Pretty much embodies the whole record. It starts out with a shrill static insect drone, kinda piercing. It goes on for a minute, you think it&#8217;s going to last forever and maybe you won&#8217;t be able to handle it, but then some youthful xylophone like synths come in and all of a sudden it&#8217;s a pop song, like American Analog Set noise for infants. It&#8217;s so charming &#038; easy going, but so abrasive &#038; stabbing, the combination of textures &#038; tones is unreal.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s what <i>American Gothic<\/i> is all about. Smoothing your dreams with the beautiful, subtle, &#038; low-key while scouring your face off with the offensive, brittle, &#038; hardcore. Slow static buzz drifts with digital clouds, mournful organs sound the arrival of new life while a blissful chaos unfolds in the heavens, and an insanely epic album closer where the sun fills you with majestic perfection and the universe crumbles at your feet. So fucking incredible.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I needed it, but this has solidified my faith in Szczepanik as a truly great modern creator, and it has only made me hungry for more from Miller. Collaborations ran amok this year and I feel like they generally tend to get overlooked. Don&#8217;t let <i>American Gothic<\/i> slip by unnoticed because it&#8217;s honestly some of <i>the<\/i> best noise drone. Period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenks Miller &#038; Nicholas Szczepanik &#8211; White Light &nbsp; Another glorious collaboration, although I&#8217;m not gonna lie, I hadn&#8217;t heard anything by Jenks Miller prior to American Gothic. Not that it matters. Anything Szczepanik does&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2276],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4668,"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antigravitybunny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}