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The Road is Still Green

by Chlorine

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1.
The Hawk 09:15
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2.
Is the Road Still Green? 03:36
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3.
The Doldrum 03:38
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4.
The Image 04:42
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5.
The Statue 03:56
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6.
I Didn't Know the Cost 05:52
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7.
The Door 06:27
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about

I’ve owed Joe Mangum my side of a split tape for his SynthPunk label for over a year…basically through and beyond the pandemic. In that time, he keeps sending me new Chlorine and Fixate stuff to listen to. And it’s @#$%^&* amazing. Then he asked me to write about it and as I sit down to get started I’m realizing just how brilliant an artist he is. From his head and heart gush these beautiful sounds and ideas and visions; soundscapes, yes, but all of it rising up like some dreamy connective vapor between the past and now, the hyper-speed city-ways and the country-road-slow of old ghosts and magic. I’ve already started working on another review for the first Chlorine full length LP, coming out later this year: The LP reveals an emerging master at work.

The Road is Still Green, Mangum’s latest cassette release, shares the same sheen.

Lots of dark synth work here, yes, but it’s Joe’s voice, guitar style, understanding of harmony and rhythm, and other-world-building production skill that make it shine as some sort of found-object, lo-fi, talismanic, Greg Sage, future-dub recipe. He combines Boards of Canada-esque atmospheres, the earliest fluorescent shadows of post-punk/synth-pop (OMD, Daniel Miller, Fad Gadget, JD, HL, DM), and 4-track demo zone Kill Yr Sonic Youth-era clang.

Every song is right where it needs to be. Figuring out which tracks I like best is why it took me several days to write the review. They’re all killer. Take time to listen to this one carefully, whatever you do. If you want to check it fast, though, try “The Image” or “The Door”.

My advice: One night soon, put this tape on in the car and take a drive all the way around New Circle Road (or some other long stretch you like). You’ll get a sense of the haunted-ness of everything right now, the glare and shadows in the windows waking up an understanding of the deeper, darker spirits lurking everywhere. The art of Chlorine has this quality and I hope you investigate.

-Ben Allen, Lexington KY

Released on Cassette by Sunset Club Records

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released August 6, 2022

J.M- Guitar, Voice, Synth, Bass, Keyboards, Drum Programing Loops and Dubs, Cover Painting and Layout, Recording

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Chlorine Kentucky

Home recording project of Joey Elsinore. Several incarnations of a live band have existed and will very likely exist again. Based in Lexington, KY.

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