The Second Disc Calls Piqued “A Fine Tribute” To The Late Jeffrey Runnings
The Second Disc says Jeffrey Runnings‘ posthumous release Piqued is”a fine tribute to the late artist.” The site notes that the longtime For Against leader “believed in stripping music down ‘to the bones,’ and that lo-fi, often dreamy aesthetic is on full display throughout the eleven mostly-instrumental songs on Piqued. The homemade feel adds to the retro ’80s vibe and intimate milieu of this music with electric guitar, synths, loops, and treated instruments. There’s an elegiac quality that pervades the compositions as well as a rawness… Runnings kept the tempi slow and languid, and the sound intentionally muddy with vocals and instruments bleeding together in a dense, melancholy post-Spector soundscape.” Read more here.
The LP is at radio now from Independent Project Records!
