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nes advantage
9+ albums
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Combining the trusty crutches of chronic unemployment, three chords on the piano and a pair of PC World speakers that had long out-lived their welcome, Ryan Flem(m)ing and Andrew Gardiner formed avant garde noise-smiths Nes Advantage. Their brief was simple: to eradicate any vestiges of tune, conventional structure, melodic harmonies and nice guitar tones that had blighted their earlier bands’ music. So Ryan got all sweaty on the carpet with some wire cutters and a box of pedals, while Andrew “put everything through Haunted Cavern reverb” on the computer to try to make things as disconcerting as possible. With most of the songs based around simple piano riffs or guitar motifs, the arrangements that were built on top were entirely improvised, exclusively first take, and purposefully mixed in a slap dash fashion. Ryan and Andrew both accept, and secretly relish, just how utterly pretentious this all may seem. They have released one full length LP, entitled The Sounds of Heart Failure: Championship Edition, which documents the duo’s fascination with Marlon Brando, drum beats made out of discarded medical tapes and removing absolutely everything from Graeme McClure’s Times Are Grand song, leaving only delayed discordant guitar and distorted bin lid percussion. Heart Failure’s sister disc is an EP entitles Communist Pleasures which mops up the remainder of the Nes archive. Listen to this if you like Sonic Youth, Pavement, Radiohead b-sides from the Amnesiac era, God Speed!