Pitch Black - Rude Mechanicals [LP] Deepmatter I’ve Got to Stop Trying

I’ve Got to Stop Trying

harnessing their fire-extinguisher splatter into shake-appealing rock action

Produced with their trademark attention to detail

the album was ranked number 359 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time

Pitch Black - Rude Mechanicals [LP] Deepmatter I’ve Got to Stop TryingDouble vinyl LP pressing. From the evocative opening South of the Line to the stepping 1000 Mile Drift, the dub is strong, as one would expect, and so is the influence of drum'n'bass on the bottom heavy Bird Soul and the atmospheric Please Leave Quietly; trance on the pulsating Sonic Colonic (Live at Minikami) and slinky Transient Transmission (fig. 2); ambient on the burbling Harmonia and softly snarling Fragile Ladders. The title track, meanwhile,