Wall of Ears is what happens when As Cities Burn guitarists Cody Bonnette and Christopher Lott embrace experimental recording and writing processes. These six surreal songs were written at the same time they were recorded in the summer of 2012  in the room where Chris's albino labrador, Tunna, crossed over to the other side. Under their twisty fingers the studio became an instrument as involved with the composition of the songs as their creators. Working this way allowed Chris and Cody to patiently sculpt their sonic vision, manipulating the bizarre orchestrations of inverted samples, field recordings, guitar fuck ups, and unconventional instruments, such as the singing saw, toy pianos, vibraphone, and many more.
 
There is an inhuman quality to this record that pulls inspiration from the history of experimental composition and surrealist art, but never abandons the merry and moving psych-pop of the sixties and seventies. Standard instruments are warped, octavated, morphed till they become unidentifiable: formless and new. Every song has an its own arc that builds and bends, but none of the songs remotely resemble each other. This is the music of aliens; pop from the fringes, the concept of sound deconstructed and built up again through textures, through not-knowing. Wall of Ears replicates the way deep dreaming feels or how sneezing can be pretty in slow motion.

 
Wall of Ears will be touring this summer while working on writing a full-length record.  The self-released, self-titled debut EP sold out all of its 350 copies in ten shows in January 2012.


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