Water From Your Eyes – Structure (Blk) (Can) [LP]

Delighting in contradiction, Structure is an ambitious LPthat approaches it’s own impressive scope and aspiration with a tongue-in-cheek humor and a reflexive self-effacement that wonderfully reflects the personalities of it’screators. Influenced by Scott Walker’s sole 80s release,Climate of Hunter and the works of the colorfield painterMark Rothko, it’s a concept album that pokes fun of theidea of concept albums, exploring high-minded ideaswhile subverting them and applying a hyper-focused eyefor detail in the service of a series of clever misdirections.Tracks like opening single “Quotations” see the bandat their freewheeling best, drawing from the persistentand building rhythms of the dance music tradition that haslong been one of the many elements of their sound, toconstruct a mesmerizing forest of sounds out of repeatingvocal samples, swooping synth lines and eventually cascading break beats. At the other end of the album’s auditory spectrum, “Whe