$30.00
DOUBLE LEOPARDS; A hole is true
LP, 2005
Recorded, appropriately enough, at the Tar Pit in Brooklyn, A Hole Is True is likely to be the group’s easiest-to-find release to date, and is perhaps the most succinct distillation of their shadowy, merciless arts. The title seems a slight misdirection, as there’s no sign of holes anywhere on the album’s three impossibly dense squalls. Whatever its substance, the opening “Inmost Light” enters with a dizzying electric whirr that repeatedly threatens to congeal into a riff, before getting blown to pieces by a cyclone of unmoored spectral wails. “Chemical Wedding” is even simpler, just a razor-thin current of pulsing overtones, while the 21-minute “White Cadillacs” uses voices nearly recognizable as human to deliver shifty messages directly to the reptilian core of your brainstem.
Roberto and his brother Maurizio are the highly advanced lifeforms crewing the mysterious starship that goes by the name of My Cat Is An Alien (MCIAA), plotting a quixotic course through three millennia of cosmic music, from the celestial drones of the Pythagorean monochord onwards, to land up in the gravity-free realm of the No-mind