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A miniature masterpiece of thousands of amplified crickets, Glossolalia is Melk The G6-49?s finest moment. Recorded over three days, the Bloomington, Indiana bass and drum duo have composed an album that comes off sounding like a Christian Marclay-ed Melvins 12" crossfaded with a Ruins cover of Music for Airports. Hiss, trashy cymbals and 4-string bass blasts spasm and flop with no room for other sound. Melk have pursued their heavy-noise ambient methods with only John Spencer?s electric bass and Karl Hofstetter?s drums. According to Delusions of Adequacy "Melk the G6-49 makes a wall of sound so dangerously unconventional and label bending that slapping a label on this feels like going out and stomping around in an unbroken field of snow. It?s just sacrilege." Working in an emotionally and sonically intimate territory that is more normally associated with small free jazz ensembles, Splendid remarked, "they're the metal equivalents of Matthew Shipp and William Parker."