- Record Label: No Quarter
- Release Date: Mar 4, 2016
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Mar 22, 2016The Rarity of Experience is another brilliant turn for Forsyth with the Solar Motel Band, but what makes it truly remarkable--and one of the finest guitar-driven records of this young 2016--is that it also feels like a new start.
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Mar 9, 2016It evokes aspects of Miles Davis’s electric period and various kinds of rock-beyond-rock--Slint, Sonic Youth and so on. You sense Mr. Forsyth’s control easing a bit here, and the music grows deeper and better.
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UncutMar 8, 2016This album pushes and pulls in so many directions, it should fall apart; remarkably, it doesn't. [Apr 2016, p.72]
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Mar 17, 2016As a guitarist, Forsyth has a clear and immediately identifiable voice. His tones and melodies are familiar yet fresh, at once embodying grace and freakiness, tradition and experimentation, the past and the present.
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Apr 25, 2016These climactic moments of “High Castle,” and the others like it on the record, are a kind of triumph of Forsyth’s musical grammar, too: the efficiency of communication, the transmission of feeling via the blunt physicality of sound.
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The WireMar 8, 2016The expanded bag of references and methods that he draws from on The Rarity Of Experience indicates that Forsyth and company aren't settling for what they know they can do, but using it as a starting point to figure out where to go next. [Feb 2016, p.50]
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Mar 8, 2016On his second studio album co-credited to the Solar Motel Band, former Peeesseye guitarist Chris Forsyth sprawls out while penning some of his most melodic, accessible songs.
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MojoMar 8, 2016A mostly instrumental set of spiralling guitars and scalp-prickling grooves. [Apr 2016, p.96]