Two veterans of US indy/punk rock deconstruct the early underground sound using vintage analog Sunn and Ampeg equipment and a host of damaged electronics. "Vs." is a sweeping sound journey executed by Marc Arsenault (nickname: Rebel, formerly of Brown Cuts Neighbors) and Joshua Baker (Offset Needle Radius, ex- God Hates Computers, Chased and Smashed, Kilauea, Sawhorse). "Heavy Ambient". Recorded in Kittery, Maine. January, 2009. Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk. Portland, Oregon. The earlier collaboration between Arsenault and Baker 'Ouroboros'-released to commemorate PI Day 2009-is included as an extra track and has been remastered for this release. The CD also includes bonus digital content for your computer: Videos for the tracks Ouroboros and Inspector's Test (single edit), and the cover art as both PDF and JPEG.
TRACKS:
1. Inspector's Test (Offset Needle Radius)
2. Man on A Ladder (nickname: Rebel)
3. Print Through (nickname: Rebel)
4. Quarter Inch Jack (nickname: Rebel)
5. Ouroboros (nickname: Rebel)
Inspector's Test Video Edit:
Reviews:
Dark-ish, ambient-ish, psychedellic-y lunarscapes that you can dance on, but only with a zero gravity lumbering gait.--Rocktober Magazine #47, Fall 2009
Marc Arsenault and Joshua Baker come to improvised guitar music from a background in avant-rock bands, and now call themselves Nickname: Rebel and Offset Needle Radius respectively. On Nickname: Rebel Vs Offset Needle Radius they turn in some very credible meandering guitar-scaping episodes full of vast abstractions and intricate scrapey doodles, largely avoiding unpleasant noise or feedback in favour of continuous, real-time playing, only slightly enhanced with foreign-sounding effects and treatments --Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector, February 14, 2010
Experimental - Triptastical Nonstructure Who needs form and void when you can float out into the nether regions of the ether? Imagine the track -IONS- from Tool's Aenima stretched across an entire album. --Cheshire Cat, WESU FM
Ouroboros Video:
5 track audio CD with bonus multimedia antics Wow Cool, 2009
