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01. Cd3 - Golden Coil
02. Cd3 - Rules For Living
03. Cd3 - Wrong Foot Tube
04. Cd3 - Bent Aerial
05. Cd3 - The Duchess
06. Cd3 - Embankment
07. Cd3 - Franzbranntwein
08. Cd3 - Glyphted
09. Cd3 - Farmhand
10. Cd3 - Director
11. Cd3 - Balrog Sok
12. Cd3 - Solong
ARTIST
TITLE
Rules For Living
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
ZORN 111LP ZORN 111LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/20/2025

"Listening to CD3, I'm reminded of how the Vincent Over The Sink record 22 Coloured Bull Terriers made me feel all those years ago. There's a free ranging quality to it. It feels calmly capable of doing whatever it wants. It feels mysterious and self-generating, almost aloof to the humans who made it. I adored that record; it cascaded into so many epiphanies. I don't want to implicate Cooper and David's music in any fleeting desire towards currency, but listening to this CD3 record over the last few weeks has felt weirdly, thematically correct. There's an echo-ey kind of referentiality to it. Not to particular styles of music, but to the recently elapsed histories those styles of music evoke. It's something that Th Blisks kind of gestures towards, but which this project seems to own entirely. It's a kind of melted reconfiguration of popular (occasionally popular-on-the-fringes) styles. These familiar sounds are reconfigured and muddied. Hindsight frames the sources in an almost primordial light, to the extent that they feel like folk art. 'Glyphted' and 'Franzbranntwein' sound like pop songs stripped to their bones and distorted, as if the styles they vaguely recall are as old as time. It's a stunningly weird effect. Songs like 'The Duchess' and 'Farmhand' exacerbate this impression. The record comes to feel yearningly ahistorical. But in a way that feels pertinent? It might just be where my head is at, but the implacable nature of the record feels important to me, somehow. It's something far, far north of post-modern but ancient too." --Shaun Prescott