Luck / In The Back

brand new 33 rpm 12" ep in a run of 500 copies from the new religious knives quartet line-up featuring maya miller (organ/synth/vocals), michael bernstein (synth/melodica/vocals), nate nelson (drums/percussion), and todd cavallo (bass guitar). first side has the kind of meditative, drugged atmosphere of affenstunde-era popol vuh w/a wash of wasted majesty ala desert shore-era cale/eno/nico, while the addition of melodica and primitive drums simultaneously hooks it into a weird uk diy/early rough trade feel that parallels the whole swell maps/television personalities axis. b-side has more of a malevolent, no wave edge that touches on the first chrome lp, simply saucer and confusion-era sonic youth, peaking with overloaded vocals and metal-buckling distortion. essential!